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Starting at 12:00 pm ET: @Harvard.edu assistant professor of economics Rahul Singh presents "Program Evaluation with Remotely Sensed Outcomes" at this week's #AppliedStats workshop.

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Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009) | Applied Statistics Workshop Gov 3009
The Applied Statistics Workshop is a forum for graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars to present and discuss methodological or empirical work in progress in an interdisciplinary setting.…
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November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Today at 4:30 pm: Jesse Schreger (Columbia Business School) uses LLMs to identify instances of governments applying geoeconomic pressure, at today's Alesina Seminar.

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November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Starting at 12:00 noon: Rohit Bhattacharya presents "Opportunities for Principled Use of AI for Causal Inference" in this week's Applied Stats Workshop.

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Rohit Bhattacharya (Williams College) | Applied Statistics Workshop Gov 3009
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November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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What if humans could have perfect, infinite memory? Harvard researchers Spandan Madan and Gabriel Kreiman, founders of Memorious, set out to reinvent human memory using #AI technology with guidance and support from the IQSS Startup Foundry.

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Memorious: Building Infinite Memory with AI | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science
What if humans could have perfect, infinite memory? Harvard researchers Spandan Madan and Gabriel Kreiman set out to reinvent human memory using AI technology, with guidance and support from the IQSS…
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October 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Join us Thursday as @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social professor Matilde Bombardini presents "Climate Politics in the United States" for this week's Alesina Seminar on Political Economy:

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October 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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At this week's #AppliedStats workshop, @harvardkennedy.bsky.social professor Will Dobbie presents "The Role of Beliefs in Driving Racial Discrimination: Experimental Evidence from the U.S. Pretrial System". Join us today at noon.
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October 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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This week at IQSS: Workshops on media credibility, climate politics, and more.

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Upcoming Events | The Institute for Quantitative Social Science
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September 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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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.

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September 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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This Week at IQSS: join us for workshops on political ads, LLMs, & tweets.

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September 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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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"

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City-Defined Neighborhood Boundaries in the United States - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - City-Defined Neighborhood Boundaries in the United States
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July 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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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
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June 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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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.

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Numbers tell one story about climate change. People tell another. — Harvard Gazette
Policy expert Dustin Tingley studies transition to renewable energy, knows from work, life how economic shifts rattle through communities.
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June 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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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
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June 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Sharing social media and potentially sensitive content? Take a look at our Dataverse use case from Dataverse at #ASU repository.

#Dataverse2025 #Data #curation #socialmedia
June 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Sharing Geospatial Data in a Dataverse Repository? Follow best practices and utilize the proper features

#Dataverse2025 #Borealis
#repositories #curation #Geospatialdata
June 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Curation consideration in sharing social media data
June 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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@localcontexts.bsky.social use case for the Dataverse Integration

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June 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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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.

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What's Next for This Year's Graduating IQSS Affiliates
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May 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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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.

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Empowering Appalachia
Elizabeth Thom, who graduates this May with a PhD in government and social policy, carries an interest in regional politics into her work on responses to policy initiatives in Central Appalachia.
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May 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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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 .
Balance of Restraint
Although war certainly didn't disappear after 1945, formal declarations of it mostly did. Graduating PhD student Katherine Irajpanah says changes in international norms around warfighting—the…
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May 28, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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.
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Interviewing experts wasn’t enough — Harvard Gazette
Stint as data journalist at NYT sends Sahil Chinoy on quest for even deeper dives into labor, politics, human behavior.
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May 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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.
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Medical anthropology pioneer Arthur Kleinman to retire— Harvard Gazette
A psychiatrist whose many titles include Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, plans to officially retire next year after a total of nearly 50 years at Harvard.
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May 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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.

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2025 CGA Conference: The Geography of Digital Twins & The 2025 Symposium on Spatiotemporal Data Science
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May 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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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 😀

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Hello world! We're the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at Harvard—the… | Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA)
Hello world! We're the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at Harvard—the University's hub for all things geographical, supporting and leading spatial research, training, and teaching for the...
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April 22, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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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!
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May 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM