Accessing and Launching Workstations

Users are assigned cloud-based workstations to perform analysis on the datasets. This section
provides a description of how to launch and use these workstations.

Launch Workstations

1. Users can see the assigned workstations by clicking on WORKSTATIONS from the top
   menu. By default, all the workstations are in an inactive state.

2. Click on Start to start the workstation.

   

3. The workstation should become available within five minutes; you may not see any change immediately. A message will appear when the workstation has been successfully started.

   

4. Now click Launch for the workstation.

   

5. This will provide a user access to their workstation within the browser. The workstation may take a few minutes to initialize. When complete, a login screen will appear. User is prompted to re-enter SDC username and password.

   

Software Validation

By default, users will have the following installed on their workstations:
• Java
• Python
• R, RStudio
• SQL Workbench
• Power BI
• AWS CLI
• Adobe
• Libre Office
• Visual Studio
• PuTTY
• Firefox

Connecting to the Data Warehouse

The following sections illustrate how the user can connect to the data stores available to the

SDC.

Connecting to Waze Data in Redshift Using SQL Workbench

Launch SQL Workbench by double-clicking the SQL Workbench shortcut on the desktop.

Connecting to Waze Data in Redshift Using Python

Connecting to the Hadoop Hive Metastore

Update Data Formatting Settings in SQL Workbench

Connecting to the SDC Hadoop Data Warehouse Using Python

Connecting to Redshift from Linux Environment

Accessing Jupyter Notebook and RStudio Server

Manage Workstations

Resize Workstation

Schedule/Extend Uptime

Stop Workstations