Research Computing (RC) Trainings & Workshops

Upcoming RC events around Columbia

Opportunities designed specifically for Columbia's world-class research community.

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May 19-20 | Google Earth Engine Boot Camp

Investigators from any institution and from all career stages are welcome to attend. Columbia affiliates receive a 10% discount. Capacity is limited.

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June 11-13 | SQL Boot Camp: Building and Querying Databases

Investigators from any institution and from all career stages are welcome to attend. Columbia affiliates receive a 10% discount. Capacity is limited.

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June 23-24 | Code Rigor and Reproducibility with R Boot Camp

Investigators from any institution and from all career stages are welcome to attend. Columbia affiliates receive a 10% discount. Capacity is limited.

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June 26-27 | Visualizing and Analyzing Health Data

Investigators from any institution and from all career stages are welcome to attend. Columbia affiliates receive a 10% discount. Capacity is limited.

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July 9-11 | Causal Mediation Analysis Training: Methods and Applications Using Health Data

Investigators from any institution and from all career stages are welcome to attend. Columbia affiliates receive a 10% discount. Capacity is limited.

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July 14-15 | Machine Learning Boot Camp: Analyzing Biomedical and Health Data

Investigators from any institution and from all career stages are welcome to attend. Columbia affiliates receive a 10% discount. Capacity is limited.

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July 21-22 | Data, Designed Workshop: Create Better, More Effective Data Visualizations

Investigators from any institution and from all career stages are welcome to attend. Columbia affiliates receive a 10% discount. Capacity is limited.

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July 28-29 | Python Data Wrangling Boot Camp

Investigators from any institution and from all career stages are welcome to attend. Columbia affiliates receive a 10% discount. Capacity is limited.

Our colleagues from Research Data Services at the Columbia Libraries also offer on-demand workshops and class visits on applications for a range of popular tools, including R, Stata, Git. They also run the Columbia Data Club!

RCS Video Library

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Peer Institute & Industry Events/Resources

RCS maintains relationships with our vendor partners and peer institutions to help support research and education, including fellow Ivys and R1 Universities, Intel, NVIDIA, AWS, Globus, SnapGene, GraphPad Prism and more. Let us know if you want us to look into arranging a webinar on a specific topic for our Columbia users!

Gurobi Days Digital 2025
May 6-7 | Gurobi Days Digital 2025

Learn directly from optimization experts at Gurobi! You can choose to watch pre-recorded sessions at your own pace in your own time zone, or you can join for (free) live sessions.

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June 6 | Solving Data Management Challenges with Globus

The Globus team will provide straightforward approaches to secure data transfer, sharing, and automation that solve common research challenges.

NVIDIA Developer Program
NVIDIA Developer Program

Join for free software, technical documentation, learning resources, plus peer and domain expert help.

Other key NVIDIA resources

Online Tutorials

National Student Data Corps Video Library

Watch videos on data science topics based on IBM’s OpenDS4All curriculum, as well as student-created SQL and R educational materials, data science use cases, and more, presented by data enthusiasts from around the world

Cornell Virtual Workshops

Cornell has pioneered an intuitive learning platform with trainings on programming languages (e.g. Python, R, MATLAB), parallel computing, code optimization, and data analysis. The platform supports learning communities around the world, with code examples from national systems such as FronteraStampede2, and Jetstream2.

Data Science Resource Repository (DSSR)

Curated set of 1,300+ resources for learners, educators, researchers, career explorers, and professionals that promotes data science literacy.

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

In 2020, MIT instructors put together a course curriculum to bring students up to speed on "computing ecosystem literacy" to help fill the gaps between the advanced topic instruction that Computer Science students often receive. Topics include Shell Tools and Scripting, Version Control (Git), Debugging and Profiling and more. There also are community translations in 15 languages.