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Preparing the Next Steps and the Next Generation: Latanya Sweeney's Data Privacy Lab and Public Interest Tech Lab

March 15, 2024

by Colleen Walsh
 

In today’s tech-filled world, digital information can be shared with the touch of a button. But that information is increasingly at risk, and often that risk is hidden from view.

Take Facebook Messenger. For years, many fans of the popular mobile app were unaware the users they were chatting with could easily track their locations until a Harvard College junior affiliated with Harvard’s Data Privacy Lab showed them what that looked like in real time... Read more about Preparing the Next Steps and the Next Generation: Latanya Sweeney's Data Privacy Lab and Public Interest Tech Lab

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Revolutionizing Research through AI-Powered Data Sharing and Curation

February 14, 2024

We are thrilled to announce the launch of TurboCurator by ICPSR, an interactive tool designed to streamline and enhance the deposit of your research data at Dataverse. Turbocurator was developed for Dataverse through intensive collaboration between our two organizations with support from the National Science Foundation Midscale Infrastructure program that funds the Research Data Ecosystem project... Read more about Revolutionizing Research through AI-Powered Data Sharing and Curation

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Global Flourishing Study Releases Wave One Open Research Data

February 13, 2024

by Human Flourishing Program
 

The wave one dataset from the Global Flourishing Study (GFS) initiative is now available to researchers.

The GFS, a partnership among researchers at Baylor University and Harvard University, Gallup, and the Center for Open Science (COS), is a $43.4 million, five-year study of more than 200,000 individuals in over 20 countries. The GFS data will become a resource for researchers, journalists, policymakers, and educators worldwide. While several studies have tracked respondents over time in a single country, the scope and breadth of GFS is unprecedented... Read more about Global Flourishing Study Releases Wave One Open Research Data

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Dataverse 6.1 is Here

December 20, 2023

Dataverse 6.1 is now available. Many thanks to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project.

View release details and upgrade instructions here... Read more about Dataverse 6.1 is Here

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Data Science Services at IQSS: Harnessing Data Interpretation for Academic Advancement

November 20, 2023

by Danielle Benaroche Gottesman
 

Research cycles of academic papers tend to follow a systematic process involving a number of stages—topic and hypothesis development, research design and methodology, and data analysis. Provided that each stage runs smoothly, a conclusion containing statistical or qualitative methodologies are interpreted into a body of work aimed at publication. 

But the research cycle doesn’t always run smoothly... Read more about Data Science Services at IQSS: Harnessing Data Interpretation for Academic Advancement

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2023 OpenDP Community Meeting Recap

November 6, 2023

by OpenDP Team
 

Reposted from the OpenDP blog. You can see the original blog post here.

The 2023 OpenDP Community Meeting was held after the TPDP conference on Friday, September 29th at Harvard University. Kicking off the meeting, we held a welcome reception at the Science & Engineering Complex outdoor terrace where over seventy attendees got the opportunity to meet and start networking on the previous evening. Attendees enjoyed food and drinks with beautiful weather while chatting in advance of the meeting the next day... Read more about 2023 OpenDP Community Meeting Recap

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Kenneth Shepsle Awarded William H. Riker Prize

October 20, 2023

by John Duggan, Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Rochester
 

The recipient of the 2023 William H. Riker prize in Political Science is Kenneth A. Shepsle. The prize is awarded by the Rochester Department of Political Science for outstanding work in social science in the spirit of William H. Riker. Riker founded the Ph.D. program at Rochester and introduced formal...

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Dataverse 6.0 has arrived!

October 2, 2023

by Ceilyn Boyd
 

This is a platform upgrade release. Payara, Solr, and Java have been upgraded. No features have been added to the Dataverse software itself. Only a handful of bugs were fixed.

Many thanks to all of the community members who contributed code, suggestions, bug reports, and other assistance across the project... Read more about Dataverse 6.0 has arrived!

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Announcing OpenDP Library 0.8

September 11, 2023

The OpenDP Library is a modular collection of algorithms for building privacy-preserving applications, with an extensible approach to tracking privacy, and a vetted implementation. It is available as binaries for Python on PyPI, for Rust on crates.io, or in source form on GitHub.

This release features a number of improvements to OpenDP APIs, with the aim of streamlining user programs. It also includes an early preview of some new functionality, plus some quality-of-life improvements... Read more about Announcing OpenDP Library 0.8