GIS

The GIS Institute is a two-week training course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its application to research. The program is designed for Harvard graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and staff, as well as external researchers who...

This 2-hour interactive workshop introduces participants to the practical use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for text classification tasks using real-world geotagged Twitter data. Participants will learn how to leverage Python and the LM studio to...

This two-hour workshop introduces satellite imagery analysis with Google Earth Engine (GEE) using KNIME’s GEE extension. Specifically, this workshop will: 1) Explain how remote sensing imagery supports Social Science, Health, and Humanities research, 2)...

Please join us for "A City Is Sometimes a Tree," an Urban Conversations event with speaker Geoff Boeing in conversation with Carole Voulgaris. Geoff is an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California Price School of Public Policy. Lunch...

This two hour workshop will introduce the concept of spatial analysis and what it can be used for. Students will use the R progamming language to perform proximity, overlay, and geostatistical operations on a variety of data. Students will learn how to...

Please join us for "Digital Gossip and Neighborhood Value," an Urban Conversations event with speaker Elizabeth Delmelle in conversation with Chris Herbert. Elizabeth is an associate professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning, and director...

CGA Brown Bag presentation by Crhistian Joel González-Cuatianquis Abstract Educational aspirations play a central role in shaping social mobility, but the influence of contextual factors on aspiration formation remains poorly understood. This paper...

This three hour workshop will focus on how to make maps using the two primary desktop GIS software programs QGIS and ArcGIS Pro. Using geographic data students will 1) Create both general reference maps and thematic maps that communicate particular...

This two-hour workshop introduces no-code visual programming for geographic analysis using KNIME. This workshop will: 1) Introdcue how to read, process, visualize, write GIS data and share workflow, 2) Build and evaluate machine learning and spatial...

This two hour workshop introduces the concept of geocoding and how different geocoded datasets can be used. Students will geocode single addresses and cities using Bing Maps, Google Maps, and ArcGIS Online. Batches of multiple addresses will be geocoded...