Each year, IQSS awards research grants to a select group of graduate student affiliates to support dissertation research-related costs. In exchange for their ongoing contribution to the life and activity of the IQSS community... Read more about Announcing the 2021 IQSS Graduate Research Grant Recipients
We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2021 Dataverse Community Meeting, to be held virtually on June 15–17. Registration is free and open to both current and future members of the Dataverse Community.... Read more about Register for the 7th Annual Dataverse Community Meeting
Those of us who have spent the COVID-19 pandemic living in the US have learned a lot more than we expected to about just how much one’s partisan politics can affect decisions as mundane as whether to take precautions to protect one’s health in the midst of a global pandemic. The reasons for this are fairly straightforward: the US government spent the first year of the pandemic doing its best to take no action, and partisan media echoed that line—specifically targeting mask-wearing and being in crowds as activities that were not so risky. It...
In 2015, Latanya Sweeney received a $250,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to engage a network of scholars and students across the country to explore and scientifically investigate the unforeseen consequences of technology... Read more about Latanya Sweeney’s Technology Science Research Collaboration Network
Researchers at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Center for Geographic Analysis at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science present a public dashboard for congressional representatives as well as their constituents on key COVID-19 metrics for the congressional districts of the United States, as identified by the 116th United States Congress... Read more about Center for Geographic Analysis collaboration creates a Congressional District COVID-19 Dashboard
IQSS is teaming up with HBS to host 12 free Data Science workshops this fall. Instructors from both IQSS Data Science Services (IQSS-DSS) and the Harvard Business School Research Computing Services (HBS-RCS) will lead virtual workshops on Zoom that focus on data analysis software (R, Python, and Stata), as well as other key tools... Read more about Fall Workshops from Data Science Services Now Open for Registration
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