Part-time contract opportunities available to assist with ongoing research projects at Wharton. These projects typically include some custom programming to answer the research question and will often involve working with web scrapers and Qualtrics. Each project is independent and you will have the opportunity to work directly with the Faculty…Read More
MobaXterm: SSH, Graphics (X), VNC, SFTP, local shell
I’m primarily a Microsoft OS user, and have been for many years — since the mid-90’s! While OSX and Linux have come a long way, they still don’t fit my business style as well as Windows does. Yet. But I’m also a power Linux user, and spend a lot of…Read More
Notes from the ARCC14 Workshop
One of the perks of my job is that it lands me at some really interesting conferences related to computing infrastructure. Most recently, I attended Advancing Research Computing on Campuses (ARCC): Best Practices Workshop – where I took notes, so you didn’t have to! Held on the University of Illinois campus…Read More
MCMC in The Cloud
Arun Gopalakrishnan, a doctoral candidate in Wharton’s Marketing department, recently approached me to discuss taking his MCMC simulations in R to the next level: Big. His paper is under review at a journal, and the referees asked for more. Much more. While he sharpened his code, Wharton Computing’s Research Computing team built,…Read More