If you collect behavioral or market research observations online using Qualtrics surveys, data quality is a serious concern. Unlike in-person labs, paid data collection online is highly susceptible to fraud. In this post, we will revisit established best practices and adapt them to recent threats posed by Large Language Models…Read More
Using AWS Bedrock’s Batch API
In this blog, we will demonstrate how to use the AWS Bedrock Batch API to run inference jobs at scale. By following this process, you can achieve a 50% cost savings with guaranteed results within 24 hours. We’ll walk through setting up the necessary AWS resources, creating inference prompts, and…Read More
Using OpenAI Batch API
This tutorial demonstrates how to use the OpenAI API's batch endpoint to process multiple tasks efficiently, achieving a 50% cost savings with guaranteed results within 24 hours. The service is ideal for processing jobs that don't require immediate responses. Eligible researchers can email research-programming@wharton.upenn.edu to start the process of obtaining…Read More
Evenly Serve Items in Qualtrics Across Your Survey Participants
Have you ever wanted to have each of your survey participants rank 5 product reviews from a set of thousands, or gather comments on a handful of images from a set of hundreds? Maybe you want to show users a response they provided in a previous survey. Well, now you…Read More
Text Classification with Python on the HPCC
From time to time Wharton Computing Research and Analytics group is asked for assistance in using machine learning to classify text data. We thought it might be helpful to provide a working example as scaffolding for text classification projects. Setup To get started, log into your HPCC account. If you…Read More
Twitter Offers Free Premium Access to Researchers
This service has been discontinued by Twitter. Twitter recently announced their Academic Research product track and now offers full-archive search for users conducting academic research. Individual researchers can apply for an account; a process that takes a few days. Once the account is approved, you can take advantage of premium…Read More
ACCT 270 and Windows Research Computing
Windows Research Computing recently concluded working with Professor Dan Taylor’s ACCT270 class where he used the new Windows Research On-Demand environment to allow students to use SAS and Big Data for their classwork and projects. Each student in ACCT270 was provided an AWS WorkSpaces with 4vCPU and 16GB of ram…Read More
Capturing Video and/or Audio in Qualtrics
CameraTag is the Research Programming team’s suggested method of capturing and collecting video and/or audio from Qualtrics survey participants. The CameraTag platform streamlines the collection process in addition to providing media hosting. CameraTag does charge a small monthly fee based on the minutes of collected content. See more about CameraTag…Read More
Windows Research in AWS
Tired of using your computer’s resources for research? Need another windows space to crunch some numbers? Don’t have the time learn Linux? Want to do interactive research? We have the solution for you! Wharton Computing is thrilled to announce the brand new Windows Research space at Wharton! Powered by Amazon…Read More
Research & Analytics Office Hours
R&A Office Hours Present will be both a research computing and a research programming team member, so bring your questions about research technologies, data, and programming … if it’s part of your research, we want to learn about it, and help you accomplish your research goals. Or just stop in…Read More