Have you ever had to determine gender for a list of names, but are not sure where to start? We’ve come across these cool and easy-to-use tools to help you with this task. You can assign gender and probability using the gender package in R (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gender/index.html) and genderize.io in Python (https://pypi.org/project/Genderize/). Please contact RCS for sample scripts if you... Read more about New Tip from the RCS Data Team

Dear Compute Grid User,

This is a reminder that the next monthly Compute Grid maintenance is scheduled for Monday, August 6^th, from 8am until 12pm.

How will this affect you?

· All sessions to the login nodes will be terminated, including terminal and NoMachine sessions

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Later this month you should receive emails from RCS regarding software renewal update instructions if you are an HBS/Harvard licensed user of MATLAB, Mathematica, and SAS. Please note that you may start to receive expiration notices when launching the software, which you can ignore; or you may be required to sign into your account with the software vendor to refresh or reactivate your license. We are working very closely with the vendors to expedite this update process as best as possible.

MATLAB users should be aware of exciting new features available in the latest R2018a release,... Read more about Summer 2018 Software Renewals

Research Computing Services will be performing maintenance on the database server beginning Monday, June 18^th. We expect to complete the work and have the server back on line by June 20^th. We will contact you when the server is ready.

During the maintenance window, you will not be able to log on to the server or have access to your database(s).

In preparation for the maintenance, we will have all databases backed up by June 11^th. Backup operations should not affect use of your database unless you are actively loading data. Please...

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