AI-Driven Research Platform for Social Sciences

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An AI-Driven Research Platform

With advancements in technology, researchers are encouraged to explore their work in new ways—whether to increase efficiency or solve complex scientific problems. RTI Merge™ is a cloud data science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform built to meet the needs of the research community, applying powerful technology for data, analytics, and solutions development that helps teams deliver research and insights better, faster, and cheaper.

RTI Merge supports a variety of use cases, including data analysis, automated workflows, custom web hosting, and more. The container technology enables users to keep their costs low, while the mature platform with approved security controls and automated processes allows for highly efficient operations. In addition, its easy-to-share configuration strengthens open science efforts in the research community by increasing transparency, accessibility, and equity for all to foster growth and discovery in research.

Learn more on how RTI is implementing AI in our work.

Platform Features and Benefits

Seamlessly take your projects from data acquisition to knowledge discovery

Curated tools to elevate your work

Best-in-class open-source software integrated with proprietary RTI tools on one AI-driven platform, ready for instant access.

Building blocks to accelerate projects

Jump start your project with open source libraries, knowledge graph layers, and synthetic population data.

Implement workflows rapidly

Reproducible, reliable workflows fully or semi-automated based on your needs.

Manage information efficiently

Automate workflows, data acquisition, and knowledge curation while collaborating across your team and ensuring quality.

Leverage cloud computing

Computing resources available on demand, so you can scale up and down as you need.

What is included in an RTI Merge subscription?

Subscriptions/Users

Create subscriptions based on project-requested software and compute requirements.
Onboard new users and projects.
Maintain and provision new storage spaces (file share equivalent).
Troubleshoot issues with any standard tools.
Provided standard user support.

Platform Maintenance

Update software and add new packages for Python, R, and many other languages.
Continuously right size cloud resources as conditions and needs change to keep costs low.
Maintain cloud infrastructure to adapt best practices as new tools and products become available.
Fully manage environments enabling projects to focus solely on their specific expertise.

Custom Services

Gain access to enhanced user support.
Containerize existing applications to be efficiently deployed in the cloud.
Research and pilot new software and architecture to meet changing client needs.

Security

Perform security review of new software and obtaining approvals from OCISO as needed.
Vulnerability remediation before deployment into cloud environments
Protect project namespaces through network isolation.
System Owner for FIPS Low ATO

Innovation Support

Configure automated and scheduled scalable workloads.
Investigate and pilot new software in Merge to assess feasibility and usefulness.
Develop automated DevSecOps pipelines for project application deployment and testing.

Business Development

Brainstorm solutions for proposals.
Create budget estimates for potential projects or proposals.
Write new text or provide existing details on the platform to enhance technical proposals.

Products Powered by RTI Merge

RTI SynthPop™

Leverage spatially explicit records for every US households and person without the concern of personably identifiable information (PII).

Data visualization at the most granular level
Determine connections between socio-economic factors
Understand risk factors for the spread of infection disease and other public health crises

Learn More about RTI SynthPop™

RTI COVID-19 Data Insights

Use community-level data to create a targeted COVID-19 response plan for your community. Cross-compare COVID-19 data with socioeconomic vulnerability factors.

Prioritize limited response resources based on real-time insights
SynthPop dataset integrations for hyper-localized insights at the census block level
Inform public health response and minimize community impacts

Learn More about RTI COVID-19 Data Insights

At RTI, we are not solely technologists, but we are also not only researchers—we are where the two intersect. This allows us to bring skillsets from both areas and to collaborate with a wide range of people to build cutting-edge products.” –Helen Jang, RTI Senior Director