Hands-on Learning for Researchers Across Various Disciplines

Are you looking to learn new data or computational skills? We offer regular workshops, access to online learning resources, and guides to help you acquire new skills and utilize our services effectively. Enhance your abilities, expand your expertise, and discover how to optimize your research at one of our Research Computing and Data Services (RCDS) sessions. 

Foundations in Genomic Analyses

This workshop series covers topics and skills foundational to conducting genomics-related research. This series is a collaboration between Northwestern IT's Research Computing and Data Services and the Galter Library.

Next Steps in Python

This workshop series covers intermediate Python skills, tips, and tricks guaranteed to make your coding life easier.

Next Steps in R

This workshop series will expand your R skills beyond the basics in this one-hour remote lesson.

Artificial Intelligence for Research

This workshop series provides practical advice and examples on how to effectively and securely utilize AI in your research. From writing code to training large language models (LLMs), our Data Scientists will walk you through the tools and tips you'll need.

Data Management

This workshop series explores all the best practices researchers perform to care for their research data, including organizing, describing, preserving, and sharing.

Statistics

 This workshop series covers when and how to apply different statistical methods and models. They often demonstrate related code, but they cover general information that is useful regardless of which software you use. 

Quest Orientation

New Quest users, especially those without previous HPC experience, are strongly encouraged to attend a Quest Orientation session. The Orientation sessions build on the information covered in our Introduction to Quest video series to help you navigate data storage options, transfer data to and from Quest, submit jobs, and identify the best way to use Quest in support of your research. Participants should have an active Quest account and bring their laptops. All Northwestern researchers can request a Quest account (allocation) if they do not already have one.

Genomics Compute Cluster Orientation

New users of the Genomics Compute Cluster (GCC) should attend an in-person or virtual orientation session to get started using the GCC.

Learning Resources

Learning Resources

• Resource Guides: Research Computing and Data Services team members have curated lists of free books, videos, online courses, tutorials and other materials to help you learn R, Python, SQL, git, and more.
• O’Reilly Online Learning: Northwestern University Libraries provides online access to many popular books and other resources covering programming, software development, data visualization, machine learning, and other technology topics. Register for an account. with a Northwestern email address by clicking “Institution not listed?”; once you have an account, you can log in directly.
• LinkedIn Learning: Northwestern Human Resources provides access to courses on a wide range of technology topics, including databases, programming, and data analysis.
• Quest User Guide and Documentation: your guide to using Northwestern’s high-performance computing cluster.

Talk to a Consultant

Are you looking for help from a person instead? We can meet with you one-on-one to answer questions on using computational and data resources and methods in your research.

• Data Science, Statistics, and Visualization
• Quest High-Performance Computing
• Genomics Compute Cluster
• Cloud Computing
• National Computing Resources such as ACCESS
• Data Management and Workflows