Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University

Our technology platforms are organized into and run by our self-supporting centers. These include:

Harvard-MIT Data Center (Site)

Informatics

Led by Dr. William Wei

Service provision: Automated and nonautomated location, acquisition, data reference, archiving, preservation, and dissemination of an enormous variety of social science data to the Harvard and MIT communities.

The Data Network Project (Site)

Led by Dr. Merce Crosas

Service provision: Provides a complete open-source, digital library system for the management, dissemination, exchange, and citation of ever-expanding types and quantities of virtual collections of quantitative data.

Information Technology

Led by Dr. William Wei

Service provision: Manage PCs, networks, email, web, and compute servers; high performance cluster computing.

R&D: Developing new infrastructure for faster, more reliable, and more efficient computing.

Statistical Computing

Service provision: provide access to and advice about development environments for, and analysis using, a large range of statistical software and the hardware to run it.

R&D: Statistical software design and engineering.

Henry A. Murray Research Archive (Site)

Data Preservation

Led by Dr. Micah Altman

Service provision: Identification, preparation, digitization, and preservation of data and related quantitative and qualitative documents.

R&D: Development of standards,architecture, and tools for preservation metadata, formats, and lifecyles.

Center for Geographic Analysis (Site)

Geographic Information Systems

Led by Dr. Wendy Guan

Service Provision: Software, computing resources, consulting on GIS applications.

R&D: Development of architectures and tools for interoperation of GIS services in heterogenous library and research environments.