ITS provides a number of services to support faculty and student research.\u00a0\u00a0Whether you are coding software,\u00a0collecting important\u00a0data, or building\u00a0experimental apparatus, we have you covered.<\/p>\n
ITS provides several methods of safeguarding your important research data.\u00a0 Learn more at our Research Data Storage and Backup page<\/a>.\u00a0 Each researcher’s needs are different so check out what we offer and get in touch with us to set up a consultation.<\/p>\n ITS offers access to high\u00a0performance computing through an agreement with XSEDE<\/a>,\u00a0an NSF-funded project to provide\u00a0computing resources to researchers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Any professor or student at Swarthmore can\u00a0run code on some of the fastest computers in the world.<\/p>\n ITS runs both the Beardsley MakerSpace and Media Center.\u00a0 In the MakerSpace you can use 3D printers, our large laser cutter, and woodworking equipment to construct your experimental apparatus.\u00a0 Our MakerSpace Manager, Russell Prigodich, provides full time support for the space and can\u00a0consult with you on your designs.\u00a0 In the Media Center, you can design and print out your research poster or use our workstations for video editing or graphic design.\u00a0 Jeremy Polk, our experienced Media Center Coordinator,\u00a0is ready to support your work.<\/p>\n The R is an increasingly popular statistical programming language.\u00a0 Jupyter (formerly iPython)\u00a0notebooks are widely used to code and share the results with a wide audience.\u00a0 ITS provides web-based versions of each via our RStudio and JupyerHub servers.\u00a0 Because the systems are\u00a0accessible from a web browser, you can start working on campus and continue anywhere else in the world without having to copy files around.\u00a0 Contact help@swarthmore.edu to obtain a login.<\/p>\n Software version control is critical to any coding project.\u00a0 Keep your source code safe and secure while collaborating with your research group by using Swarthmore’s GitHub Enterprise service<\/a>.\u00a0 More information is available at our GitHub Enterprise help page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITS provides a number of services to support faculty and student research.\u00a0\u00a0Whether you are coding software,\u00a0collecting important\u00a0data, or building\u00a0experimental apparatus, we have you covered. 1. Research data storage and backup ITS provides several methods of safeguarding your important research data.\u00a0 … Continue reading 5 Tools for Faculty and Students doing Research at Swarthmore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":4857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,113,242,114],"tags":[90,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-4851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-academic-technology","8":"category-facultystaff","9":"category-makerspace","10":"category-students","11":"tag-featured","12":"tag-research","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/15925574671_ee528f5297_o.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-1gf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2. High performance computing<\/h1>\n
3. MakerSpace and Media Center<\/h1>\n
4. RStudio\/JupyterHub Servers<\/h1>\n
5. GitHub Enterprise<\/h1>\n