Data about People

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CaRCC Membership and Participation

Membership and Participation in our RCD Communities: What is it and how are we doing? In PEARC ’24: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2024: Human Powered Computing, 17 July 2024, Providence, RI, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

See also the latest CaRCC Town Hall slides.

RCD Workforce Survey Data

Data on the demographics, education, and work experience of RCD professionals; their current positions and experience working in the RCD field; and their compensation and job responsibilities.
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Workforce Survey Paper: Characterizing the US Research Computing and Data (RCD) Workforce. In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC ’22), July 10–14, 2022, Boston, MA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

Workforce Survey Data Visualizations

RCD Career Arcs Data

Distinct RCD roles are relatively new and it is not obvious to people outside of these roles how their skills and experience map to the RCD profession. This is a serious barrier to recruitment and to the development of a “pipeline” into these roles. In addition, staff currently in RCD roles lack resources to help them grow into new roles and more generally to create a professional development plan; this undermines retention of these skilled professionals. The CaRCC Career Arcs Working Group developed a set of resources to address these challenges. See:

Research Software Engineers International Survey

Survey of RSEs from around the world. Learn more here.

Presentations