Product Development
IQSS researches and develops software and systems tools—a unique undertaking in an academic environment. While social science research drives us, we strive to create broad-based, powerful, scalable, extendable products that will be useful in diverse research domains and scholarly environments. We aim to build tools that will enable breakthrough advances in a sweeping range of social problems. IQSS currently is working on the following projects:
Dataverse
Dataverse is a software platform that enables the hosting of research data repositories. It provides a preservation and archival infrastructure, and allows researchers to share, keep control of, and get recognition for their data through an easy to access web browser interface.
Contact: support@dataverse.org
Website: The Dataverse Project
Website: The Harvard Dataverse
Metrics: Dataverse Metrics
Roadmap: Dataverse Roadmap
Peer Pre-Review (PPR)
Researchers at participating universities may qualify for the Alexander and Diviya Magaro Peer Pre-Review (PPR) program, which can increase the quality of your scholarship and speed up the journal peer review process.
Contact: peerprereview@iq.harvard.edu
Website: Peer Pre-Review Program at Harvard
Metrics: PPR Metrics
Roadmap: PPR Roadmap
OpenDP
OpenDP is an effort to build a suite of open-source tools for enabling privacy-protective analysis of sensitive personal data, focused on the rapidly advancing science of differential privacy to enable institutions to safely and confidently share sensitive data to support scientifically-oriented research in the public interest.
The Systems Development
The Systems Development team innovates the next generation of systems for computational social science. They work closely with third-party cloud vendors to host technology services that have become commoditized, and they develop innovative architectures that leverage the elastic and scalable infrastructure of cloud resources, enabling the further development and integration of new technologies to make computing easier and more powerful for social science researchers.
Contact: Len Wisniewski
