AI coding assistants can now do more than suggest MATLAB code. With MathWorks’ MATLAB MCP server, an AI coding agent can open MATLAB, run code, read the output, and revise its work while you approve each step. Think of the agent as a capable research assistant: it can handle much…Read More
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PARCC’s Betty Cluster Goes Live
Hello Wharton Researchers! The Penn Advanced Research Computing Center (PARCC)’s Betty Cluster went online in production beginning on Sunday, March 15th. It will become a central resource for research computing at Penn. Wharton is actively partnering in its rollout and will be gradually transitioning our research workloads there from our…Read More
Systematic Information Gathering with AI: Beyond Manual Collection
The Promise of Structured Data Collection Information gathering across large, distributed sources has long been challenging to systematize effectively. Whether you're mapping expertise, compiling directories, or surveying landscapes in any domain, traditional automated approaches often struggle with inconsistent data extraction, parsing errors, and poor data quality. Recent advances in AI…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
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
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 NOTE!! Our Office Hours program is being revamped for the Fall 2026 semester and beyond. Please stay tuned for further details! The below is inaccurate, please disregard until we've updated for our new scheduling.
8 Qualtrics Hacks That’ll Make Your Life Easier – Number 6 Will Make Your Day
Researchers live for collecting data. Here at Wharton we use Qualtrics regularly, and our postgraduates are always doing something more complicated than a conjoint analysis or Likert scale. These are some of our favorite Qualtrics hacks that multiply your ability to get a great data set. The examples below are…Read More
HPCC Dropbox Client Retirement
Dropbox on Wharton’s HPC Cluster has been a great tool for many of you! The ability to sync files between desktop, HPCC, home, phone, and collaborators is of immense value. However, Dropbox has announced that on November 7th, 2018 Dropbox will no longer support our setup* with their official client,…Read More