Past Events

  • 2020 Apr 15

    Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009)

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    CGIS Knafel K354

    Today's speaker: Briana Stephenson  (Harvard University), “Empirically Derived Dietary Patterns using Robust Profile Clustering”

    Abstract: Mixture models have been of great utility in exploring dietary behaviors over a wide set of foods and beverages in a given population, but are prone to overgeneralize these habits in the presence of variation by subpopulations. This research aimed to highlight unique dietary consumption differences by both study site and ethnicity in Hispanic/Latino populations in the United States, that...

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  • 2020 Apr 15

    Dataverse Open Office Hours

    Repeats every week every Wednesday until Wed Aug 26 2020 .
    11:00am to 1:00pm

    Due to COVID-19, Dataverse open office hours will be conducted via Zoom until further notice.

    Office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 4.0. These sessions will take place weekly at IQSS. Demo of 4.0 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,...

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  • 2020 Apr 08

    Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009)

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Zoom - see below

    The Gov 3009 workshop will be conducted remotely for the remainder of Spring 2020. 

    Today's speaker: Kosuke Imai (Harvard University), “Causal Inference with Spatio-temporal Data: Estimating the Effects of Airstrikes on Insurgent Violence in Iraq”

    Zoom link:  https://harvard.zoom.us/j/987462892

    Abstract: Although many causal processes have spatial and temporal dimensions, the classical causal inference framework is not directly...

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  • 2020 Apr 08

    Dataverse Open Office Hours

    11:00am to 1:00pm

    Due to COVID-19, Dataverse open office hours will be conducted via Zoom until further notice.

    Office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 4.0. These sessions will take place weekly at IQSS. Demo of 4.0 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,...

    Read more about Dataverse Open Office Hours
  • 2020 Apr 03

    Python Web-Scraping

    9:30am to 12:30pm

    Location: 

    Zoom - see below

    This workshop will meet virtually via Zoom. A link will be distributed via email before the workshop.

    This hands-on workshop will introduce basic techniques for web-scraping using popular Python libraries... Read more about Python Web-Scraping

  • 2020 Apr 01

    Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009)

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Zoom - see below

    The Gov 3009 workshop will be conducted remotely for the remainder of Spring 2020. 

    Zoom link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/987462892

    Today's speaker: Soichiro Yamauchi (Harvard University), “Difference-in-Differences for Ordinal Outcomes: Application to the Effect of Mass Shootings on Attitudes towards Gun Control.”

    Abstract: The difference-in-differences (DID) design is widely used in observational studies to estimate the causal...

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  • 2020 Apr 01

    Dataverse Open Office Hours

    11:00am to 1:00pm

    Due to COVID-19, Dataverse open office hours will be conducted via Zoom until further notice.

    Office hours are open to Harvard researchers and staff to provide support for Dataverse 4.0. These sessions will take place weekly at IQSS. Demo of 4.0 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,...

    Read more about Dataverse Open Office Hours
  • 2020 Mar 27

    Python Introduction (Allston)

    1:30pm to 4:30pm

    Location: 

    Zoom - see below

    This workshop will meet virtually via Zoom. A link will be distributed via email before the workshop.

    This hands-on workshop introduces the basic elements of Python by working through an example of how to analyze text data. Python is a general purpose programming language commonly used for data cleaning, analysis, visualization, and other applications... Read more about Python Introduction (Allston)

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