Ebola First Responder Mapping with OpenStreetMap * Register Now for this event * Join contributors world-wide and help create the maps which are being used in the fight against Ebola. Come and Learn how to map using Open Street Map and satellite images. • Bring a laptop to do your mapping on. • You’ll learn about this global collaboration • You’ll see how to use OpenStreetMap’s humanitarian mapping freeware Join us to help the first responders on the ground in West Africa! Download the Poster Sponsored by the Center for Geographic Analysis.

This hands-on workshop will demonstrate a variety of statistical procedures using the open-source statistical software program R, including multiple regression, modeling with categorical variables, and model diagnostics and comparison. Visit http://bit.ly/iqss-rmodels for details and registration information (requires HarvardKey). Read more about Regression Models in R

Brief introduction to GIS-related terminology and spatial data basics. Students will create a basic map using ArcGIS. Taught by Sumeeta Srinivasan

REGISTER March 23, 2018 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm NON-HARVARD REGISTER Learn about the easy new tools Esri has created that take advantage of all the powerful mapping capabilities. ArcGIS Online and Esri Maps for MS Office give you the power of GIS without the learning curve. Do drag-and-drop mapping, geocoding, routing and visualizations outside of ArcGIS Desktop. Create interactive web maps you can embed in your own blog, web page or PowerPoint slide. Learn about Esri's ready-to-use content. Find data, create a web map, and share it - all in about five minutes. Instructor: Giovanni Zambotti (HPPM... Read more about Introduction to ArcGIS Online

REGISTER February 9, 2018 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm Leader/Instructor Wendy Guan NON-HARVARD REGISTER An introduction to spatial analysis for various kinds of problem solving in a GIS environment. Examples of both raster and vector data-based spatial operations like overlay, buffering, and interpolation will be covered. Download Workshop Materials Location Training Workshops - Northwest Building

Date: Friday, October 21, 2016, 9:30am to 12:30pm See also: Upcoming Workshops, Stata, Regression and Graphing in Stata Location: CLER Lab, Shad Hall basement, Harvard Business School This hands-on class will provide a comprehensive introduction to graphics in Stata. Topics for the class include graphing principles, descriptive graphs, linear regression, factor variables, and post-estimation graphs. This is an introductory workshop appropriate for those with only basic familiarity with Stata. Prerequisite: a general familiarity with Stata (such as taking the Introduction to Stata workshop).... Read more about Regression and Graphing in Stata

An introduction to Quantum GIS for beginners, this workshop will cover the basic methods for opening various data formats, dealing with projections, joining tabular data to vector GIS layers, symbolization, and exporting data. No previous knowledge of GIS or statistics is required. Leader/Instructor: Merrick Lex Berman

Date: Friday, October 28, 2016, 9:30am to 12:30pm See also: Other Workshops, Upcoming Workshops Location: CLER lab, Shad Hall, HBS 70 N Harvard St. Boston, MA This hands-on workshop will take you through the steps of using git and Github, to track changes, revert to older versions, and share your files with other people. Ultimately, to keep you organized and reduce the clutter of files in your projects. Version control software allows you to save “versions” of files -- scripts, text files, web pages, data, etc. -- which show the changes that were made to the files over time, and allows... Read more about Version Control with git

The ability to 'wrangle' various forms of data into a GIS is necessary in order to produce maps or analysis. Students will learn how to convert and properly geo-reference raw data in text form into GIS format, find and import relevant publicly available data, and produce a map of the results.

Web scraping is a method of extracting and restructuring information from web pages. This workshop will introduce basic techniques for web scraping using the popular Python libraries BeautifulSoup and Requests. Participants will practice accessing websites, parsing information, and storing data in a CSV file. This workshop is intended for social scientists who are new to web scraping, but have some familiarity with Python or have attended the Introduction to Python workshop. Workshop Preparation Computers with Python pre-loaded are available on a first-come, first-served basis. If you with to... Read more about Introduction to Web Scraping with Python

REGISTER April 7, 2017 - 1:30pm to 3:30pm Leader/Instructor Giovanni Zambotti NON-HARVARD REGISTER Learn about the easy new tools Esri has created that take advantage of all the powerful mapping capabilities. ArcGIS Online and Esri Maps for MS Office give you the power of GIS without the learning curve. Do drag-and-drop mapping, geocoding, routing and visualizations outside of ArcGIS Desktop. Create interactive web maps you can embed in your own blog, web page or PowerPoint slide. Learn about Esri's ready-to-use content. Find data, create a web map, and share it - all in about five minutes.... Read more about ArcGIS Online & ArcGIS Maps for Office

In this workshop we will look at the kinds of tools that data scientists use (programming languages, statistics packages, version control, text editors and integrated development environments) and discuss the pros and cons of popular alternatives. Visit http://bit.ly/iqss-dstools for details and registration information (requires HarvardKey). Read more about Data Science Tools: an overview

LOCATION: Room B-127, The Northwest Building, 52 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA Database design is a key step in GIS data modeling. GIS data modeling is the process of representing specific aspects of the real world in a computer. This workshop gives an introduction to GIS data modeling and the 3 phases of database design: requirements analysis, schema refinement, and physical database design. It also covers specific design considerations when capturing data for GIS applications using GPS. Students will design a Geodatabase for use in ArcPad on the Trimble GeoXT. Leader/Instructor: Nicole Alexander

Statistics courses usually use clean and well-behaved data for examples and homework. This leaves many unprepared for the messiness and chaos of data in the real world. This workshop aims to prepare you for dealing with messy data by walking you through real-life example. Prerequisite: basic familiarity with R, such as acquired from an introductory R workshop. This workshop is free for Harvard and MIT affiliates. Click here to sign up! For details and registration information, please contact us at researchconsulting_support@help.hmdc.harvard.edu Read more about R data management

Geoprocessing tasks can be time intensive since they often performed on a number of different and large datasets. This hand-on workshop will gently introduce Model Builder in ArcGIS Desktop, and show how you can use them to increase productivity and the quality of your data.