Research Computing Support Bob Muenchen (Pronounced MINchen) BobM@utk.edu HelpDesk: 974-9900 Greve Hall 517 http://oit.utk.edu/research
Our Mission To help UT researchers use information technology or analytic methods to: Acquire Data Manage Data Visualize & Analyze Data Disseminate Results Archive & Share Data
Acquiring Data How much to acquire? How to acquire it? Secondary data from data archives see Data Services Librarian Chris Eaker http://libguides.utk.edu/data Extract data from existing files or relational databases Extract data from social media Extract data from published graphs Copyright © 2010, Robert A Muenchen. All rights reserved.
Qualtrics Web Surveys http://oit. utk Qualtrics Web Surveys http://oit.utk.edu/research/websurveys 6,000 Users at UTK
Scantron Forms
LabVIEW Instrument Control Copyright © 2010, Robert A Muenchen. All rights reserved.
Managing Data Cleaning data – finding potential errors Missing values Finding patterns Estimating replacement values (imputation) Creating new variables Merge / Concatenate / Transpose Summarizing into counts or means by groups Backing up Archiving & Sharing Data / Results see Data Curation Librarian, Chris Eaker http://libguides.utk.edu/datamanagement
Data Visualization & Analysis Numbers Statistics Mathematics Data Mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Words Qualitative Analysis Content Analysis Linguistics / Sentiment Analysis Statistical Latent Semantic Analysis Latent Dirichlet Allocation Content vs. Style
Data Analysis (continued) Images Quantitative Qualitative Audio & Video: Qualitative only for now
Disseminate Results Graphics, Visualization, Geographic Maps Tables Writing up results
We Provide http://oit.utk.edu/research/software AutoDesk Suite AutoCAD Amos ATLAS.ti HLM ImageJ JGR JMP KNIME LISREL Maple Mathematica MATLAB Mplus MySQL Server NVivo Origin QDA Miner R SamplePower SAS SAS Enterprise Guide SAS Enterprise Miner SAS Graph Graphics Editor SAS IML Studio SAS Power and Sample Size SAS Text Miner SigmaPlot Simstat SPSS SPSS Modeler SPSS Text Analytics for Surveys Stata
We Fully Support Data Acquisition Numbers Text Images Audio/Video Qualtrics (web survey server) Numbers Amos, JMP, MATLAB, SAS, SPSS, R (under review: KNIME) Text ATLAS.ti, QDA Miner, NVivo, WordStat, R Images ATLAS.ti, ImageJ, NVivo, QDA Miner Audio/Video ATLAS.ti, NVivo GIS / Mapping ESRI ArcGIS, ArcMap
Our Annual Survey at UTK https://oit.utk.edu/research/documentation
Tracking Research Software Popularity http://r4stats
Hardware Computer Labs – >1,000 machines Apps@UT System http://apps.utk.edu Software appears to run on your computer Opens/saves files stored on your computer Prints to your printer Runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone… 40 GB of memory Jobs can run 24 hours at a time
Advanced Computing Facility https://www.jics.utk.edu/acf
Our Offices: 517 Greve Hall
Miscellaneous We offer up to 15 hours per semester of centrally-funded support Provided to ~1,600 projects per year This presentation is available in departments / research methods classes (short or long versions)
Questions? HelpDesk: 974-9900 http://oit.utk.edu/research BobM@utk.edu