We would like to take this opportunity to make sure that all users have read the following usage policy and agree to it. Please carefully read the information below.
1. Accounts are individual accounts that are not sharable.
You are not allowed to share your account password with anyone. Allowing other individuals to log into your account or use your account is a violation of our DUA and will result in immediate termination of your account.
2. Your DUA and IRB approvals are project specific.
Before starting a new project with any health data, you must check in with our team to ensure that this is an approved project. Please do so by submitting a project initiation form. Even if the data already exist and you already have access to it, please submit a new request for every new project. Failure to do so will result in immediate termination of your account.
3. IRB coverage & data security trainings are required.
Everyone with data access need to be on our IRB and have completed all the data security trainings required.
1. Health data CANNOT be moved from the RCE/FASSE.
Per the DUA and IRB, data has to be on the RCE/FASSE level 3 data cluster ONLY and cannot be downloaded from the level 3 RCE/FASSE. Violations come with serious consequences that jeopardize everyone’s work. We are very much encouraging sharing reproducible code on GitHub, but please use it only for CODE and publicly available data. We suggest adding a .gitignore file to your repository and using it to prevent unintentional upload of data files. We also suggest using the git status command before committing to confirm what you are committing.
1. Computing resources are limited.
Inefficient use of compute resources by a single user can prevent the entire team from getting work done. Users should develop and benchmark their models using the Rstudio profiler on small subsets of their data prior to grabbing large chunks of memory. We monitor computing usage, and thank you in advance for being respectful of other users.
2. Set up GitHub under CSPH-Projects and link it to FASSE project space.
For more details, please see instructions.
3. Work under the project space, and not in your home folder.
Please see instructions on how to create a project folder and a GitHub repository.
4. Use a Symbolic link to read in data from your project folder.
In order to use any of the analytic datasets available under the dominici_nsaph FASSE group, please make sure to use a symbolic link to read in data from your project folder located under /n/dominici_nsaph_l3/Lab/projects. Please do not copy the data; we have limited storage capacity and cannot have multiple copies of the data. Access more information on this step.