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.
Scientific Programs
Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA)
The Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) administers Harvard-wide GIS infrastructure, collects and disseminates spatial datasets, and provides training and consultation in the use of geospatial technologies.
Human Flourishing Program
The Human Flourishing Program aims to integrate knowledge from the empirical social sciences and the humanities on topics such as religion, virtue, work, purpose, forgiveness, marriage, and family.
Program on Survey Research
The Program on Survey Research encourages and facilitates research and instruction in the theory and practice of survey research, with a mission of enhancing the quality of teaching and research at Harvard.
OpenDP
OpenDP aims to build a trustworthy suite of open-source tools for enabling privacy-protective analysis of sensitive private data using differential privacy.
Murray Research Archive
The Henry A. Murray Research Archive is a permanent repository for quantitative and qualitative social science data. The collection comprises over 100 TB of numerical datasets, video and audio recordings, interview notes, and other media.
Product Development
The Dataverse Project
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: Dataverse Metrics
Roadmap: Dataverse Roadmap
OpenDP
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.
Contact: info@opendp.org
Website: OpenDP
Systems Development
The Systems Development team innovates the next generation of systems for computational social science. Working closely with third-party cloud vendors to host technology services that have become commoditized, it develops 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.
