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Wednesday at 12pm: the #AppliedStats Workshop continues with @GregLanzalotto, who presents "Estimating Unreported and Unobservable Uses of Force Using Police Body-Worn Camera Data."
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#Harvard #UPenn #BWC #DataAnalysis
Thursday at 3pm: Magdalena Larreboure examines how commercial water rights affect streamflow and protests in “Water Allocation and Social Unrest: Evidence from Chilean Water Rights” at the Alesina Seminar.
iq.harvard.edu/event/magdale…
#PoliticalEconomy #ClimateResearch #WaterPolicy
The Center for Geographic Analysis conference will be held October 2–3, 2026, at the Rubenstein Treehouse at Harvard. Check out the preliminary program and other details at the link—there's still time to register!
gis.harvard.edu/2026-cga-con…
#GIS #GeographicAnalysis #SpatialData
Wednesday at 12pm: in this week's #AppliedStats workshop, Tymon Słoczyński introduces practical tools for evaluating weighted estimands with "Quantifying the Internal Validity of Weighted Estimands."
iq.harvard.edu/event/tymon-s…
#CausalInference #Statistics #QuantitativeMethods
Starting at 12pm: Jerry Min, drawing on enforcement and ownership data from 2.4 million U.S. plants, examines whether regulators subject foreign- and out-of-state-owned firms to greater scrutiny.
iq.harvard.edu/event/jerry-m…
#AmericanPolitics #PoliticalScience #ResearchWorkshop
This week at IQSS: the CGA Conference, LLM and sustainable development; plus training workshops and talks on water rights, weighted estimands, and more.
iq.harvard.edu/calendar
#Harvard #AI #LLMs #SocialScienceResearch #GIS
#AppliedStats is back! This week, Mitsuru Mukaigawara presents "How Efforts to Contain Epidemics Intensify Civil Conflict: Application of Spatiotemporal Causal Inference to Outbreak- and Patient-Level Microdata":
iq.harvard.edu/event/mitsuru…
#Harvard #AppliedStatistics
An update on the #IQSS Computer Labs: we're sad to say that our Concourse Lab is closing, but the Third Floor Computer Lab (CGIS Knafel room K301) will remain open and available for our research community.
For help, contact #HUIT at [email protected].
#Harvard #HarvardComputing
Multilingual research: Affiliates Andrea Nasuto, Stefano @Iacus, and Devika Jain with @Fcorowe present an open-source #LLM framework classifying tweets across languages for real-time large-scale analysis, in @Nature.
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
#SocialScienceResearch #DataScience
As you might imagine, we at IQSS enjoyed Nature's rankings exercise...
iq.harvard.edu/news/2026/07/…
The Murray Archive, part of the @Dataverseorg, is one many IQSS programs and tools driving new ideas and findings. We're proud of the role IQSS played in @Nature's recognition of @Harvard's leadership in social science research.
iq.harvard.edu/news/2026/07/…
#Harvard #SocialScience
Harvard, and IQSS in particular, ranks #1 globally in @Nature's social science research index. As Harvard’s hub for the social sciences, IQSS—and the Murray Research Archive at IQSS—is proud to play a central role in supporting and driving that research.
nature.com/nature-index/news…
IQSS affiliate Mahzarin Banaji, Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Harvard Department of Psychology, is among the Andrew Carnegie Foundation's 2026 Class of Great Immigrants.
current.fas.harvard.edu/stor…
#Harvard #Immigrants #ImplicitBias #Psychology
Political debate assumes a divided US, but #voters show strikingly similar experiences across the aisle. IQSS affiliates Stephen Ansolabehere and Brian Schaffner how adding one personal question to the Cooperative #Election Study challenges assumptions.
nytimes.com/2026/07/04/opini…
The Dataverse Project team traveled to Barcelona and Riga to discuss topics on AI and celebrate milestones with the Dataverse community, now spread across 150 installations worldwide.
iq.harvard.edu/news/2026/06/…
#AI #OpenData #ResearchData #Dataverse2026 #Harvard #Spain #Latvia
With the launch of the @UDelaware Dataverse (dataverse.udel.edu), we now have 150 Dataverse installations worldwide! We’re thrilled by how much the platform has grown and look forward to making data even more discoverable and shareable for researchers. @Dataverseorg
How can #epidemiology use machine learning to estimate who benefits most from an intervention? A new paper by IQSS affiliate Toshiaki Komura and co-authors offers guidance on heterogeneous treatment effects.
doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyag092
#CausalInference #MachineLearning #Harvard
What is the “true value" of #history in a digital age? IQSS affiliate Peter Bol talks with @CGTNOfficial on how digital tools and projects, like the #China Biographical Database at IQSS, can make the past accessible while preserving humanistic values.
#DigitalHumanities #Harvard
The IQSS data science team was at the Harvard RCD Summit 2026 on Tuesday, where Sonia Barbosa, Danny Ebanks, William Horka, and Devika Jain shared how we support data science and research data management at Harvard.
#Harvard #RCDSummit #DataScience #Dataverse
In his recent Graduate English Address at Harvard Commencement, IQSS affiliate Andrew O'Donohue reflected on lessons from his study of democracy and courts abroad—and on why universities and democracy depend on one another.
news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto…
#Harvard #Democracy
