Survey research and semi-structured field interviews are popular methods used by students to collect data for honors theses. This workshop, sponsored by the Harvard Program on Survey Research, is targeted toward undergraduates considering conducting surveys or semi-structured interviews during the summer as part of their thesis research. The workshop provides an overview of the survey process, with a focus on practical applications that can be implemented in thesis research. Topics include selecting an appropriate mode for data collection, designing...
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B127 52 Oxford St - Northwest Building
Google provides several free to use online and desktop mapping services. In
this workshop the Google products MyMaps, Mash-ups, Earth, and Fusion Tables
will be introduced. Students will practice using these tools to perform
geocoding, and will make a variety of custom maps and visualizations.
Students will also learn the differences between these Google... Read more about Exploring Google's Mapping Products
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12:00pm to 1:30pm
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S050, CGIS South 1730 Cambridge St
Nicholas Valentino's (U. of Michigan) research focuses on immigration,
discrimination and emotions in political decision making.
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Room K401, CGS Knafel. 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA 02138
This month's student/faculty gathering will feature a presentation by
Jennifer Lerner. Lunch will be served for you to enjoy.
Feel free to contact Cassie McGrath [1] with any questions.
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9:00am to 12:00pm
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K018, 1737 Cambridge Street
This hands-on, intermediate R course will guide users through a variety of
programming functions in the open-source statistical software program, R.
This workshop is free for Harvard and MIT affiliates. Click here to sign up!
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4:30pm to 6:00pm
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K354, CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge St. Cambridge, MA
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and The Institute for Quantitative Social
Science at Harvard University are sponsoring a seminar on formal and
quantitative political research. The Program on Positive Political Economy
(PPE) supports research-related activities that integrate the study of
economics and politics, whether by studying economic... Read more about Harvard Seminar on Positive Political Economy
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S450, CGIS South 1730 Cambridge St
TBA
Please RSVP to Sage Kochavi [1]
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CGIS Knaffel 1737 Cambridge St, Cambridge Room K354
The Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov 3009) [1]meets all academic year,
Wednesdays, 12pm-1:30pm, in CGIS K354. This workshop is a forum for advanced
graduate students, faculty, and visiting scholars to present and discuss
methodological or empirical work in progress in an interdisciplinary setting.
The workshop features a tour of Harvard's... Read more about Applied Statistics Workshop (Gov3009)
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K354
Presentations given by Mitra Akhtari and Danial Lashkari
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B127 52 Oxford St - Northwest Building
The Center for Geographic Analysis is developing WorldMap
(http://worldmap.harvard.edu/ [1]), an open source platform designed to
encourage collaboration between researchers who need access to geospatial
information. Despite the many ways in which research materials can now be
accessed and shared across the web, the methods suitable for geospatial... Read more about Worldmap Training