1. Research Computing Support
Bob Muenchen (Pronounced MINchen)
HelpDesk:
Greve Hall 517

2. 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

3. Acquiring Data How much to acquire? How to acquire it?
Secondary data from data archives see Data Services Librarian Chris Eaker
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.

4. Qualtrics Web Surveys http://oit. utk
Qualtrics Web Surveys 6,000 Users at UTK

5. Scantron Forms

6. LabVIEW Instrument Control
Copyright © 2010, Robert A Muenchen. All rights reserved.

7. 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

8. 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

9. Data Analysis (continued)
Images
Quantitative
Qualitative
Audio & Video: Qualitative only for now

10. Disseminate Results Graphics, Visualization, Geographic Maps Tables
Writing up results

11. 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

12. 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

13. Our Annual Survey at UTK https://oit.utk.edu/research/documentation

14. Tracking Research Software Popularity http://r4stats

15. Hardware Computer Labs – >1,000 machines
System
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

16. Advanced Computing Facility https://www.jics.utk.edu/acf

18. Our Offices: 517 Greve Hall

19. 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)

20. Questions? HelpDesk: 974-9900 http://oit.utk.edu/research BobM@utk.edu