Self-Guided Learning

This page offers a vast number of resources to help support your computational work. You may click on each topic to access the list of resources or scroll down the page to explore them all. 

Topics: High Performance Computing,Software and Tools, Data Management and Storage, National Computing Resources: ACCESS, AI, Cloud Computing, Git and GitHub, Linux, Mathematica, MATLAB, MySQL, Python, R and RStudio, Stata.

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Self-Guided Learning Resources

High Performance Computing 

Getting started on Yale’s HPC  YCRC user guide

Introduction to HPC  YCRC training video

Intermediate (Practical) HPC YCRC training video

Shareable Reproducible HPC Containers  YCRC training video

Software and Tools 

Software and Tools YCRC user guide 

Yale Software Catalog Website

Scientific Research Software Core

Software and Data Carpentry Website

Data Management and Storage

Data Storage  YCRC documentation

Data Transfers YCRC documentation

Data Sharing YCRC documentation

Tidying Data YCRC training video

Data Intensive Social Science Center (DISSC)  Website

Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (BIDS)  Website

National Computing Resources: ACCESS 

Accessing ACCESS  YCRC training video 

ACCESS Allocations Website

AI

AI at Yale Website

Yale’s Clarity Platform Website

The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Website

Cloud Computing

SpinUp Self Service  ITS documentation

AWS User Guides  AWS documentation

Azure User Guides  Microsoft documentation

GCP User Guides   Google documentation

Research Technology Consulting Service  ITS documentation

Git and GitHub

Version control with Git and GitHub  YCRC user guide

Version Control with Git  YCRC training video

Learning Git and GitHub   LinkedIn Learning course 

Git Intermediate Techniques  LinkedIn Learning course 

Linux

Practical Introduction to Linux  YCRC training video

Shareable Reproducible HPC Containers  YCRC training video

Learning Linux Command Line  LinkedIn Learning training video 

Mathematica

Mathematica  YCRC user guide 

Mathematica 11 Essential Training  LinkedIn Learning course 

Mathematica Wolfram Online Learning Resources

MATLAB

MATLAB YCRC user guide

MATLAB Mathworks online tutorials

MySQL

Mysql  YCRC user guide

MySQL Essential Training  LinkedIn Learning course 

MySQL Advanced Topics LinkedIn Learning course 

Python

Python YCRC user guide 

Python YCRC recommended online tutorial

Introduction to Python YCRC training video

Data Analysis Tools for Python  YCRC training video

Parallel Programming with Python YCRC training video

Faster Python Code  LinkedIn Learning course 

Python Essential Training LinkedIn Learning course 

Get started in data analysis with Python LinkedIn Learning course 

Data Science Foundations: Python Scientific Stack  LinkedIn Learning course 

R and RStudio

R YCRC user guide

R for Novices  YCRC training video

Writing Efficient Code  YCRC training video

Parallel Programming with R  YCRC training video

Tidying Data  YCRC training video

Supercharging Your Analysis YCRC training video

R for Data Science: Lunch Break Lessons  LinkedIn Learning course 

R for Data Science: Analysis and Visualization  LinkedIn Learning course 

Data Wrangling in R LinkedIn Learning course 

Complete Your First Project in R LinkedIn Learning course 

Stata

Introduction to Bayesian Statistics Using Stata  StataCorp training video 

Stata: Causal Inference for Complex Observational Data  StataCorp training video 

Stata Learner’s Resources