Research lifecycle wheel with two of six wedges indicating active research highlighted in green and blue The active research phase of a project may include collecting or acquiring data, information, or sources; conducting quantitative or qualitative analysis; and/or using computation resources, data storage, quantitative or qualitative tools, visualizations, or information exploration.

Cluster Computing

Doing computations at scale allows a researcher to test many different variables at once, thereby shorter time to outcomes, and also provides the ability to ask... Read more about Cluster Computing

Data Center Hosted Systems

Hosting services provide a secure, environmentally controlled data center space with redundant power and network feeds.... Read more about Data Center Hosted Systems

Data Cleaning

Data Cleaning services and consultation support for cleaning, reformatting, merging, and scraping data for analyzing, visualization and reporting.

Data Curation

Specialists throughout Harvard Library are available to consult about data curation, organization, and integration. In order to maintain the availability... Read more about Data Curation

Data Handling

Consultation, instruction, and support for practices and procedures involving data (e.g., reformatting).

Data Science and Research Computing Facilitation

A research team can often benefit from incremental help to expand their knowledge and skills, to augment their collective skill set... Read more about Data Science and Research Computing Facilitation

Data Science and Research Software Engineering Collaboration

Data Science and Software Engineering play an important role in research by creating new... Read more about Data Science and Research Software Engineering Collaboration

Data Visualization

Data visualization creation and support (i.e. specialized referrals) for research projects.

Database

In a data analysis environment, organized collections of data need to be hosted and access granted to set of researchers. A database service provides an interface to... Read more about Database

Dataset Creation

Across the University, experts are available to consult on creating data and datasets using tools like MTurk, Qualtrics, and other surveys and field experiments.... Read more about Dataset Creation

Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs)

Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) are software programs that replace paper notebooks.... Read more about Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs)

Geospatial Data

Experts are available to consult with researchers on finding, preparing, creating, and/or analyzing geospatial data... Read more about Geospatial Data

Lab and Biological Safety Resources

University-wide tracking of lab safety.

Metadata Creation

Harvard Library staff are available for consultation, instruction, and full-service creation of standards-based metadata for research data.... Read more about Metadata Creation

Qualitative Data

Consultations and instruction associated with all types of data analysis, including qualitative, quantitative, and text analysis... Read more about Qualitative Data

Research Data Storage

Research Data Storage provides large-scale networked attached access to research data from a variety of endpoints... Read more about Research Data Storage

Research Software Programs

Research software is the collection of tools, codes, libraries that allows a researcher to generate new data or analyze and make meaning of existing data.

Software & Platforms

Access to software, research tools, and online platforms for data analysis and data visualization... Read more about Software & Platforms

Text Analysis

Text analysis consultations and assistance for faculty and students performing text mining... Read more about Text Analysis

Virtual Instances

In a typical cluster computing environment, the operating system, configuration, etc. is relatively homogeneous... Read more about Virtual Instances

Active Research