What is the ThinkChicago Workbench?
The ThinkChicago Workbench is a cloud-based service with a set of general-purpose development and data analysis environments to help you to explore your ideas with the ThinkChicago data. All applications run as Docker containers on a system hosted by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
What data is available?
The ThinkChicago workbench provides access to five datasets from the City of Chicago. These datasets are also available via the City of Chicago Data Portal.
Each of these datasets is available in the /shared directory of any running application in Workbench.
What applications are available?
- Cloud9 development environments for popular languages including Python, Java, PHP, and Node.js
- Data analysis environments including Jupyter Notebooks and RStudio
- Database and data management software including MySQL, PostgresSQL, and MongoDB
Getting getting data on/off the Workbench
- Github: We strongly encourage you to use Github (or similar service) to store all of your source code and data.
- File Manager: The Workbench File Manager application can be used to upload/download data.
/home and /shared
Along with the /shared directory described above, your /home directory is available in every running application. Just look under /home/<userid>.