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Who We Are The Social Science Computing Cooperative supports researchers at UW-Madison who use statistical analysis in their work. We provide a complete research computing environment focused on statistics plus the expert help you need to use it. This includes: Statistical consultants who are experts on the most popular statistical software and can answer many methodological questions Training on statistical computing, including workshops and an extensive Statistical Computing Knowledge Base. Powerful and easy-to-use Windows and Linux based servers with the most popular statistical software installed and ready for use, plus many specialized packages A restricted data environment for working with HIPAA or other sensitive data Secure data storage A dedicated help desk staffed by IT professionals, with immediate access to the system administrators who run the servers The Social Science Computing Cooperative was created by researchers more than 30 years ago in order to take advantage of returns to scale by pooling resources. It is governed today by a Steering Committee made up primarily of faculty researchers, who represent their member agencies. This structure allows the SSCC to be responsive and flexible, but also makes us accountable to our members. The SSCC is also committed to future researchers. SSCC training is extremely popular with graduate students and others who are just starting their research careers. Instructors in …

SSCC News November 2021

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Paul Boyer Leaving the SSCC We’re sad to announce that Paul Boyer, who has served the SSCC as one of our PC Support staff, is leaving at the end of November. Paul is taking the next step in his career by joining his alma mater, the Wisconsin School of Business, as a Windows System Administrator. Paul will be sorely missed, but we are thrilled for him to continue his career path to new horizons. With Paul’s departure, Cody Gerhartz will certainly be busy, but we are looking to hire a replacement for Paul as quickly as possible.  While we do our best to provide excellent service to our members, members may encounter some delays in response times. Need to Learn Statistical Software? Being able to manage and analyze data is essential for a quantitative social science researcher, but necessary statistical software and data wrangling skills are rarely taught in official classes. SSCC’s statistical consultants went through the pain of figuring all that out on our own and we don’t think you should have to. If you need to learn Stata, R, or Python, you can start today by working through our online training. We’ll also be teaching all three the …

SSCC News September 2021

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Welcome, New Members! We want to extend a warm welcome to all the new members of the Social Science Computing Cooperative, whether you’re a new faculty member, staff member, or graduate student who will use our resources for research, or an undergraduate taking a class that uses SSCC resources. What is the SSCC? The SSCC provides servers, software, training, and consulting to support researchers (and future researchers) who do statistical analysis. If you didn’t attend an orientation session, feel free to email the SSCC Help Desk, tell us about yourself, and ask what we can do for you. What is SSCC News? SSCC News is one of our main ways of getting information to our members. It comes out about once every two months. Please look over the email when you get it and then read the articles that will affect you. If you’d rather not receive SSCC News, email helpdesk@ssc.wisc.edu and they can take care of that for you. If you’re no longer interested in SSCC News because you no longer use your SSCC account, they can close it for you. SSCC Fall Training SSCC’s fall training is underway, but it’s not too late to learn Stata or R, …

SSCC News August 2021

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Fall Training
SSCC Summer Tech Update
Caitlin Tefft Leaving the SSCC
Future of the Help Desk
Using Linstat from Home? Consider Connecting from Winstat
UW-Madison Joins Dryad

LabStats Expiring on June 30th 2021

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LabStats will no longer be available after June 30th, 2021. LabStats allowed users to Remote Desktop to workstations in the SSCC computer labs. After June 30th users will no longer be able to use LabStats or Remote Desktop to connect to SSCC lab machines. Anyone who requires access to SSCC lab computers will need to do so in person. Remote Desktop access for Faculty and Staff to their office machines is unaffected. We anticipate that this change will have the greatest impact on undergraduate and graduate students. If the suspension of remote access to the SSCC lab computers poses an issue for you, please contact the SSCC Help Desk to make alternative arrangements.