Today at 4:30 pm: Aakaash Rao (Dept of Economics) explain the difference between what campaign ads focus on and what news media covers, presenting "What Drives Political Attention?" for this week's Alesina Seminar on Positive Political Economy. www.iq.harvard.edu/event/aakaas...

This Week at IQSS: join us for workshops on political ads, LLMs, & tweets. www.iq.harvard.edu/calendar

New paper from IQSS affiliates and co-authors Stephen Ansolabehere, Jacob R. Brown, Ryan D. Enos, Ben Shair, Tyler Simko, David Sutton: "City-Defined Neighborhood Boundaries in the United States" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new and innovative project from IQSS affiliate Latanya Sweeney's Public Interest Lab: MyPrivacyPolls aims to create genuinely secure communication channels for those who need to speak up. #PrivacyTech #Whistleblowers #DataProtection www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

In quantitative #socialscience, data can be the key to a problem, but the solution can lie in the bigger picture. In a @Harvard.edu‬ Gazette article, IQSS affiliate @dustintingley.bsky.social‬ explores climate change #publicpolicy and the people behind the numbers. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

The #Dataverse2024 Plenary opening. Our morning panel tackles "Building Together." UNC research and data leaders discuss challenges, opportunities, and futures across the data ecosystem. #Dataverse2025 #repositories #data #AI #UNC @iqss.bsky.social

Sharing social media and potentially sensitive content? Take a look at our Dataverse use case from Dataverse at #ASU repository. #Dataverse2025 #Data #curation #socialmedia

Sharing Geospatial Data in a Dataverse Repository? Follow best practices and utilize the proper features #Dataverse2025 #Borealis #repositories #curation #Geospatialdata

Curation consideration in sharing social media data

@localcontexts.bsky.social use case for the Dataverse Integration #Dataverse2025 #Dataverse #Repositories #Data #curation

Congratulations to the @Harvard.edu Class of 2025! It's bittersweet to see them leave, but we are excited to see what graduating IQSS community members have ahead of them on their respective journeys. Some of our affiliates share their post-grad plans. www.iq.harvard.edu/news/whats-n...

Graduating IQSS affiliate Elizabeth Thom's work at Harvard explored the American welfare state and political behaviors in economically struggling communities. Read about her work in this profile from @gsas.harvard.edu‬. gsas.harvard.edu/news/empower...

During her time at Harvard, IQSS graduate affiliate Katherine Irajpanah has examined restraint in political violence and US #foreignpolicy, in this graduate profile from @gsas.harvard.edu‬ .

IQSS affiliate Sahil Chinoy's academic journey has taken him from data journalism at @nytimes.com through engineering and physics, and now to his graduation this month from @gsas.harvard.edu with a PhD in economics. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

A great look from the #Harvard Gazette at the remarkable 50-year career of IQSS affiliate Arthur Kleinman, the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of #Anthropology, after teaching his final class this semester. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Have you registered yet for the Center for Geographic Analysis Conference? The 2025 hybrid conference, "The Geography of Digital Twins," and virtual Symposium on #Spatiotemporal Data Science is coming up on Thurs May 22–Sat May 24. Free for #Harvard ID holders. gis.harvard.edu/event/2025-c...

Amazing new hobby just dropped: creating new social media accounts whenever I start a new job. Anyway, Harvard's Center for Geographic Analysis is now on LinkedIn if you want to give us a follow 😀 www.linkedin.com/posts/harvar...

Congratulations to Devika Jain, #GIS Data Science Project Manager at the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at IQSS, who has been recognized as one of 2025's Geospatial World Forum Rising Stars! geospatialworld.net/rising-stars...

Registration is open for the 2025 #Dataverse Community Meeting! Visit the meeting page for information on the agenda, speakers, and more.

At 4:30pm: Luis Martínez looks at how manufacturing firms weather the loss of a key trade partner with "Losing Venezuela: Trade Collapse and the Performance of Colombian Exporting Firms" at the last spring Alesina Seminar. www.iq.harvard.edu/event/luis-m...

Learn the basics of cartography and map design, and get an intro to ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online with Friday's Cartography Workshop, led by the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA). gis.harvard.edu/event/cartog...

Starting at 12pm ET: Ransi Clark (California Institute of Technology) presents "The saturation dangers in multi-decade democracy studies" at this week's #AppliedStats Workshop: www.iq.harvard.edu/event/ransi-...

Wednesday at 12:00 pm ET: Naijia Liu proposes a 2-stage approach to correct for missing confounders at this week's #AppliedStats workshop. #statistics #causalinference www.iq.harvard.edu/event/monica...

This week at IQSS: Workshops on collective bargaining, confounder data, and the VRA of '65—plus multiple training opportunities in #Dataverse & FASRC.

Dataverse 6.6 is out! Along with bug fixes, new features with the latest #Dataverse release include Payara and Solr infrastructure updates, version notes, and harvesting from #DataCite.

This year, IQSS turns 20! We were excited to see so many members of the IQSS Community come together to celebrate two decades of research, innovation, and partnership--and we look forward to new achievements to come.

Starting at 12 pm ET: Jacob Brown (#BostonUniversity) presents "Causes and Extent of Increasing Partisan Segregation in the U.S. – Evidence from Migration Patterns of 212 Million Voters" at this week's #AppliedStats workshop.

Today at 12pm ET: the #AppliedStats Workshop continues with visiting assistant professor of government Libby Jenke as she presents "Visiting Assistant Professor of Government" projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied.stat...

Starting at 12 noon ET: Danny Ebanks looks at systematic problems and ways to address them with "Topic Models #Estimators Are Statistically Inconsistent and Substantively Misleading: Evidence and Solutions” at this week's APRW:

Today at 12pm: Matt Graham examines vote-switching and voter turnout with "Exit, Voice, and Loyalty in Defense of Democratic Principles" at the Working Group in Political Psychology and Behavior. polpsych.hsites.harvard.edu/event/matt-graham-exit-voice-and-loyalty-defense-democratic-principles

Today at 4:30 pm: Tarek Alexander Hassan (#BostonUniversity) examines how the introduction of new technologies creates disadvantage in the workplace with "New Technologies and Inequality" at this week's Alesina Seminar. #harvard iq.harvard.edu/event/tarek-hassan-alesina-seminar

Today's Applied Stats workshop is CANCELED. The workshop continues next week--check out the schedule for April's sessions at the website: projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied.stats.workshop-gov3009

Looking to sharpen your Dataverse skills, or curious about what it's capable of doing for your and your data? Sign up for our in-person and virtual training sessions this week: iq.harvard.edu/calendar/week

During Spring Recess, there is no Workshop in Applied Statistics today—but you can take this opportunity to catch up on videos of this year's presentations so far: projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied.stat...

#Researchers at #Harvard, #WashU & #RooneyCenter: Elevate your #research with quick, actionable feedback on papers, grants, or preregistration plans with our free #rapidPeer service. Receive expert insights within 30 days and accelerate your path to publication: www.iq.harvard.edu/rapidpeer

Today at 4:30 pm: Georgy Egorov (Northwestern) presents “I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You: Political Information and Network Effects” at today's Alesina Seminar.

Today at 12:00 noon ET: guest speaker Jeff Gill (American University) presents at this week's #AppliedStats workshop.

Starting at 12pm ET: Hayley Manges presents "New Deal Realignment" in today's American Politics Research Workshop. www.iq.harvard.edu/event/hayley...

What are the implications AI in terms of privacy and perceptions of facts? Latanya Sweeney, professor of government and technology and director of the Data Privacy Lab at IQSS, discusses this question and more on the Possible Podcast.

After many years of leadership and innovation, Wendy Guan steps down today as Executive Director of the Center for Geographic Analysis. Our latest feature puts a spotlight on her life, career, and tenure at CGA.

Starting at 4:30 pm today: Paola Sapienza examines the effects of toxic pollution with "Measuring the Long-Term Impact of Environmental Externalities” at this week's Alesina Seminar on Political Economy. www.iq.harvard.edu/event/paola-...

Starting at 12pm ET: Shiro Kuriwaki (Yale) presents "Privacy Violations in Election Results" at this week's #AppliedStats workshop. https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/applied.stats.workshop-gov3009/presentations/shiro-kuriwaki-presents-privacy-violations-election

12 pm ET: Jack Deschler takes a look at the Supreme Court and the ideological spectrum with "Why Can't Liberals Place the Court? A Lack-of-Information Explanation” (joint work w/Maya Sen) at today's American Politics Research Workshop. https://www.iq.harvard.edu/event/jack-deschler-aprw-0

Starting 12:00 noon ET: Devin Caughey addresses dynamic model limitations with a multidimensional ordinal dynamic group-level item response theory in "MODGIRT: Multidimensional Dynamic Scaling of Aggregate Survey Data" at this week's #AppliedStats workshop.

Affiliates Francesca Dominici, Gautam Nair, S.V. Subramanian, and Dustin Tingley are among the scholars who have recently joined the Mittal Institute's Climate Platform, with a goal of collaboration in research on climate change in South Asia.

At 4:30 pm in Baker Library: Philipp Barteska examines the effects of high-ability #bureaucrats on policy, with "Personnel is Policy (Implementation): Bureaucrats and the Korean Miracle" at the Alesina Seminar on #PoliticalEconomy. https://www.iq.harvard.edu/event/philipp-barteska-alesina-seminar

Starting at 12:00 ET: Kentaro Nakamura leverages #generativeAI to enhance #causalinference as he presents "Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Texts as Treatments" in today's #AppliedStats workshop.

#CallforAbstracts: Submissions are due by February 28 for the 2025 CGA Conference, "The Geography of Digital Twins" & International Symposium on Spatiotemporal Data Science!

We are happy to announce that the Center for Geographic Analysis at IQSS will soon welcome its new executive director, Dr. Rachel Franklin.

Starting at 12:00pm ET: Julio S. Solís Arce presents "Ethnographic Perspectives: A Large-Scale Cross-Cultural Dataset" at this week's #AppliedStats workshop.