Computing, Data, and Methodology

Globus

Globus is a high-performance data-transfer and sharing platform that allows you to move large and complex datasets directly between any two applications, systems, or local machines, eliminating the need for downloading and then uploading the data.

National High-Performance Computing – ACCESS

ACCESS is an NSF-funded program consisting of a nationwide collection of supercomputing systems available to researchers and educators. ACCESS resources are freely available for Columbia researchers and educators.

Columbia HPC Resources Insomnia & Ginsburg

CUIT’s High Performance Computing service provides a cluster of computing resources that power transactions across numerous research groups. CPRC has resources in both Insomnia and Ginsburg computing clusters. This is a free resource for CPRC users, for access please reach out [email protected]

Empire AI

Empire AI provides high-performance compute resources to eligible PIs across a consortium of New York State research institutions. 

For information on Columbia Data Classifications visit the University Policies Data Classification page

Qualtrics

Qualtrics is an easy to use, full-featured, web-based tool for creating and conducting online surveys.

Stata 

Statistical software for data science. CPRC periodically conducts a school-wide bulk purchase, for more information on the next bulk software purchase please email [email protected]

Specifying the Technical Infrastructure (TI) requirements in research proposals can be difficult and time-consuming due to a lack of familiarity with the technology and services available at Columbia.  The effort required to gather appropriate technical information can delay the completion of a grant proposal, sometimes to the point of missing a submission deadline.  The Computing and Methods Core has TI information from around the University in order to provide CPRC researchers with "boilerplate" text for grant preparation.

The Computing and Methods Core provides consultation for CPRC researchers, connecting them to other faculty with specific types of methodological expertise. For consultation, please email [email protected].

Through a partnership with the Built Environment Health (BEH) research group, CPRC has secured GIS and spatial analyses consulting services for affiliates developing new research projects. Services include:

• Consultation meetings with investigators to help them conceptualize research questions, familiarize them with geo-spatial/GIS research concepts, describe to them the available geo-spatial data, describe to them the statistical analysis methods developed for such research in New York City, and help them operationalize their definitions of neighborhoods and neighborhood characteristics.

• Consultations on developing a research plan for using neighborhood data.

• Development of Methods and Preliminary studies text and citations for grant applications. 

• Access to and analysis of geo-spatial data for preliminary studies.

• Availability of well published faculty and/or geographers to serve as collaborators on grant proposals to execute the research.

For existing funded projects where investigators would like GIS support or access to geo-spatial data, the BEH group provides expertise, data, and GIS analyses on a fee for service basis.

CPRC affiliates interest in either set of services should reach out to [email protected].

The CPRC Survey Lab is a cluster of faculty and research staff with expertise in multimode survey data collection and hard-to-reach populations. Core Survey Lab projects include the New York City Longitudinal Survey of Wellbeing (NYCLSW, aka “Poverty Tracker”), an ongoing panel study of several thousand New Yorkers who are interviewed every 3-4 months, and the New York City Longitudinal Study of Young Children’s Health and Development (aka “Early Childhood Poverty Tracker”), both funded by Robin Hood. Survey Lab researchers also fielded surveys with a hard-to-reach sample of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing cohort, completing surveys with several hundred study participants who had been considered lost to follow-up, and are now fielding the Fragile Families Generation 3 study. The survey lab staff and management can be deployed by CPRC faculty to field surveys or for survey research consultations. The NYCLSW is also available to field test questions and collect experimental data on a probability sample of New Yorkers.