Programs & Products
Programs & Products
IQSS houses and develops many faculty-led scientific programs, as well as software and systems tools designed to facilitate research and the use of large datasets.
Incubation
IQSS partners with faculty and researchers to incubate data-intensive social science research initiatives.
This process involves working as a team to move the idea through the incubation life cycle, which includes discovery, development, launch, growth, and assessment.
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Product Development
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: The Harvard Dataverse Metrics
Roadmap: The Harvard Dataverse Roadmap
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 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
R Packages
IQSS has led the development of Open Source analytical tools, such as R packages, for researchers. These packages are freely available for anyone to use, modify, and contribute to.
IQSS empowers researchers to disseminate their work, and others to replicate it, by providing an Analytical Tool Building service that will develop a state-of-the-art R package from your raw code.