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Does partisanship affect whether you prepare for the pandemic? In Indonesia, it depends on where you live

February 16, 2021

by Seth Soderborg

Those of us who have spent the COVID-19 pandemic living in the US have learned a lot more than we expected to about just how much one’s partisan politics can affect decisions as mundane as whether to take precautions to protect one’s health in the midst of a global pandemic. The reasons for this are fairly straightforward: the US government spent the first year of the pandemic doing its best to take no action, and partisan media echoed that line—specifically targeting mask-wearing and being in crowds as activities that were not so risky. It...

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Center for Geographic Analysis collaboration creates a Congressional District COVID-19 Dashboard

October 28, 2020

by Wendy Guan
 

Researchers at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and the Center for Geographic Analysis at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science present a public dashboard for congressional representatives as well as their constituents on key COVID-19 metrics for the congressional districts of the United States, as identified by the 116th United States Congress... Read more about Center for Geographic Analysis collaboration creates a Congressional District COVID-19 Dashboard

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Crunching the Data on American Elections: The Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES)

September 25, 2020

by IQSS staff and Amanda Pearson

 

Since 2006, Stephen Ansolabehere, the Frank G. Thomson Professor of Government at Harvard University, has been compiling data about who votes in America, and why. He’s the principal investigator for the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES), which is a nationally representative annual sample survey of more than 50,000 American adults stratified by state and administered by the data and analytics group YouGov... Read more about Crunching the Data on American Elections: The Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES)

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Fall Workshops from Data Science Services Now Open for Registration

August 24, 2020

by Steve Worthington

IQSS is teaming up with HBS to host 12 free Data Science workshops this fall. Instructors from both IQSS Data Science Services (IQSS-DSS) and the Harvard Business School Research Computing Services (HBS-RCS) will lead virtual workshops on Zoom that focus on data analysis software (R, Python, and Stata), as well as other key tools... Read more about Fall Workshops from Data Science Services Now Open for Registration

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Mapping Chinese History and Society: The China Biographical Database quantifies a distant society and social network that looks remarkably like our own

July 2, 2020

by Elaine K. Howley

For millennia, Chinese society has been richly populated with individuals who’ve shared ideas and connections across an enormous landmass. Identifying and cataloging all of these people through the ages is the aim of an ambitious prosopography project supported by the Institute for Quantitative Social Science called the China Biographical Database Project (CBDB)... Read more about Mapping Chinese History and Society: The China Biographical Database quantifies a distant society and social network that looks remarkably like our own

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Update on the Collaboration between Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science and Microsoft to Develop Open Source Differential Privacy Software

June 24, 2020

In September 2019, Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science announced a large-scale collaboration with Microsoft to develop open source tools for differential privacy. The promise of differential privacy is that researchers can discover patterns in data... Read more about Update on the Collaboration between Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science and Microsoft to Develop Open Source Differential Privacy Software