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Registration Open for the 8th Annual Dataverse Community Meeting

May 27, 2022

The Dataverse Team at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science is excited to announce the 2022 Dataverse Community Meeting, taking place June 14–16, virtually.

The Dataverse community is invested in following ethical data principles. We feel it is an opportune time to progress Indigenous Data Sovereignty within the community and focus on the emergence of the CARE principles for Indigenous Data Governance... Read more about Registration Open for the 8th Annual Dataverse Community Meeting

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IQSS Welcomes Dr. Stefano Iacus as New Senior Research Scientist and Director of Data Science and Product Research

May 9, 2022

Data scientist and statistician Dr. Stefano Iacus will join the Institute for Quantitative Social Science in the roles of Senior Research Scientist and Director of Data Science and Product Research. Iacus will serve as a key advisor and intellectual leader on the Institute’s research agenda... Read more about IQSS Welcomes Dr. Stefano Iacus as New Senior Research Scientist and Director of Data Science and Product Research

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Community Announcement: New Space Arrangements at IQSS

April 15, 2022

Dear: IQSS Staff and Affiliates
From: Gary King, Faculty Director; Pat McVay, Director of Business Operations; Andrew Juraschek, Associate Director
Subj: New Space Arrangements at IQSS
Date: April 15, 2022

The last two years have brought some of the greatest disruptions to our personal and work lives we’ve ever seen. From the very first days of the pandemic in 2020, when we all brought our work home for what we thought would be a short two week stint, we have all longed for things to “get back to normal,” and now, two years later, that sense of...

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PaCSS 2022: Call for Proposals

April 14, 2022

We are pleased to announce that the fifth annual Politics and Computational Social Science (PaCSS) conference will take place in a hybrid format, June 16-18, 2022. Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) will host this year’s conference, with in-person events in Cambridge, Massachusetts (US). Given the profound impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on our community and the current situation of the disease spread, we believe allowing in person attendance is appropriate and an important step to support networking and community-building activities. However, we...

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