Past Events

  • 2024 Jan 30

    IQSS Late Risers' Breakfast

    10:30am to 11:30am

    Catch up with fellow members of the IQSS community over coffee, pastries, fruit, and more! All IQSS affiliates are welcome.

  • 2024 Jan 26

    Basic Intro to GIS

    1:30pm to 3:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room) or Online via Zoom

    Lead Instructor: Jeff Blossom

    Download workshop materials here.

    This workshop is offered every semester as a basic introduction to GIS. The topics covered are:

    1. What is GIS, mapping, and spatial data.
    2. GIS data types  and file formats.
    3. GIS analysis, problem solving, and case studies... Read more about Basic Intro to GIS

  • 2024 Jan 24

    Hans Gaebler (Workshop in Applied Statistics)

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS Knafel, room K354 or Online via Zoom

    This Week's Speaker

    Hans Demetrio Gaebler (Dept of Statistics), "Overcoming Statistical Challenges in Detecting Discrimination"

    Abstract

    Outcome tests are a long-standing and widely used approach to detecting discrimination in lending, hiring, policing, and beyond. For example, if White loan recipients are found to default more often than racial minority recipients, the outcome test would suggest that lenders impose a double standard, preferentially lending to riskier White loan applicants. Despite its popularity, outcome tests have long been known to...

    Read more about Hans Gaebler (Workshop in Applied Statistics)
  • 2024 Jan 24

    Dataverse Open Office Hours

    Repeats every week every Wednesday until Wed Aug 28 2024 except Wed Dec 27 2023, Wed Mar 13 2024, Wed Jun 19 2024.
    11:00am to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual via Zoom

    Weekly office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 6.0. Demo of 6.0 will begin promptly at 11am.

    Open Hours: Wednesdays, 11AM - 1PM

    RSVP required to: support@dataverse.org

    For any questions on how to share your data with Dataverse, contact: support@dataverse.org

     

  • 2024 Jan 23

    Jim Snyder (APRW)

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS Knafel, room K354

    Speaker

    Jim Snyder (Department of Government), "Is All Politics National? Evidence from Voting on Local Ballot Measures" (w/ Aleksandra Conevska, Shigeo Hirano, Shiro Kuriwaki, Jeffrey B. Lewis, and Can Mutlu)

    Lunch will be provided for attendees.

  • 2024 Jan 17

    Dataverse Open Office Hours

    11:00am to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual via Zoom

    Weekly office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 6.0. Demo of 6.0 will begin promptly at 11am.

    Open Hours: Wednesdays, 11AM - 1PM

    RSVP required to: support@dataverse.org

    For any questions on how to share your data with Dataverse, contact: support@dataverse.org

     

  • 2024 Jan 10

    Dataverse Open Office Hours

    11:00am to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual via Zoom

    Weekly office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 6.0. Demo of 6.0 will begin promptly at 11am.

    Open Hours: Wednesdays, 11AM - 1PM

    RSVP required to: support@dataverse.org

    For any questions on how to share your data with Dataverse, contact: support@dataverse.org

     

  • 2024 Jan 03

    Dataverse Open Office Hours

    11:00am to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual via Zoom

    Weekly office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 6.0. Demo of 6.0 will begin promptly at 11am.

    Open Hours: Wednesdays, 11AM - 1PM

    RSVP required to: support@dataverse.org

    For any questions on how to share your data with Dataverse, contact: support@dataverse.org

     

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