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GIS Institute Summer 2026

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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...

Getting Started with AI for Spatial Data

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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...

Satellite Imagery Analysis with Google Earth Engine

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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)...

Geography Seminar: A City Is Sometimes a Tree

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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...

Getting Started with Spatial Analysis in R

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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...

Geography Seminar: Digital Gossip and Neighborhood Value

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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...

Getting Started Making Maps with QGIS and ArcGIS

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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...

Visual Programming for GIS using KNIME

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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...

Geocoding with ArcGIS

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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...