Data Science Services
What we can help with
Any stage of a research project that will be published, from the first design to the reviewers' comments.
What we do
Consulting
Advice on a research problem: study design, data, code, models, results, and working with AI agents. Free for up to three hours per publication.
Collaboration
A data science specialist joins your project for as long as it takes and co-authors the output. $150 an hour.
Analytical tool building
We turn your method or analysis pipeline into documented R code, released as open source. Free for Harvard, except a flat $1,000 for HMS and MIT affiliates.
Training
Self-paced materials from our workshops in R, Python, and Stata, and beginner's guides to the tools around them. Live workshops return in 2027. Free. Training materials →
The terms
We reply to every help request within two business days.
Consulting
Open to faculty, research associates, postdocs, graduate students, visiting scholars, staff, and undergraduates writing a senior thesis, for research that will be published, dissertations included. Not covered: coursework and contract work. If we helped, please acknowledge us in the paper.
Collaboration
We design and build the analysis with you, from cleaning the data to answering the reviewers. In return, our team member is an author on everything the work produces and IQSS bills the hours. We take projects case by case, depending on our time, expertise, and interest. Not covered: projects whose main output is a dissertation or thesis.
Analytical tool building
Version-controlled functions with a tutorial, or a full package with documentation, published for anyone to use; see the R packages we have helped build. We choose projects by how widely the code will be reusable, our time, and feasibility. R only, for now.
Training
The materials are open to anyone, at your own pace; if you get stuck in one, ask us. Live workshops for departments, labs, and centers return in 2027; tell us what you would like to attend.
What we have done since 2011
Quarterly figures are on the IQSS metrics dashboard. If we helped with a paper, please acknowledge us in it; it is how we find your work: “Statistical support was provided by data science specialist ⟨name⟩ at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University.”
The team
Joshua Cetron
jcetron@iq.harvard.edu
Noah Greifer
ngreifer@iq.harvard.edu
Jinjie Liu
jinjie_liu@fas.harvard.edu
Steven Worthington
sworthington@iq.harvard.edu
