Online Learning Resources: R
Posted January 24, 2024
Updated January 2024 by Ritika Giri Maybe you’ve seen the dashboards or reports your colleagues produce with Shiny or R Markdown. Perhaps you’ve heard...Blog
Quest September 2023 Maintenance Updates and Upgrades
Posted September 23, 2023
Northwestern IT successfully completed fall 2023 Quest maintenance during the week of September 18. Read on to learn more about the completed work and...
Experimenting with Shiny for Python
Posted April 12, 2023
Shiny is a free, open-source, low-code utility for creating interactive figures that can be deployed to a website. R coders have been using Shiny...
Crowdsource Your Data Project with Zooniverse
Posted April 11, 2023
While crowdsourced research projects have proliferated in the last decade, there are few reliable platforms on which to build these projects. Zooniverse, built by...
Data Science Student Consultant Program Openings for 2023-2024
Posted February 21, 2023
Do you know Python or R? Do you like to help others with their technical problems? Then join our team as a student Data...
Interactively Visualizing Millions of Data Points in a Web Browser Using Firefly
Posted January 9, 2023
As datasets become larger and more complex, exploring and extracting information from them has become commensurately more difficult. Yet large and complex data sets...
Student Opportunities – January 2023
Posted January 5, 2023
Open Position: Research Computing Student Consultant Deadline: Priority will be given to applications received by January 23, 2023 and applications close on January 27,...
Working with R and Word
Posted December 19, 2022
Are you using R for data analysis and then writing up your results in Word? This is a common workflow, but can be tedious...
Quest Global Scratch Space Launches November 1st
Posted October 24, 2022
Northwestern Information Technology is pleased to announce Quest scratch space, a new service available free of charge to all users in active Quest allocations. ...
Updates and Upgrades During Quest’s September 2022 Downtime
Posted September 19, 2022
With the successful completion of the most recent Quest downtime, occurring September 12-19, 2022, I am pleased to share with you some details about...
Learning Git and GitHub
Posted June 9, 2022
If you write code with others, you’ll eventually find yourself using git and GitHub. Here are a few resources for getting started and improving...
How To Choose a Color Scheme for Your Scientific Figure
Posted May 20, 2022
The choice of color(s) has a strong impact on the message that is conveyed in a scientific figure. It is therefore extremely important to...