Current R&D

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  • March 24: Frontiers in the Analysis of Causal Mechanisms

    By Emily Ware, March 9 2012

    The purpose of this conference is to bring together cutting edge theoretical and applied research, in both the social and life sciences, to better our understanding of how to study causal mechanisms. Presenting papers are scholars from economics, epidemiology, political science, psychology, sociology and statistics.

  • Qualitative Social Science @ Harvard - Knowledge Production and Community

    By Emily Ware, February 28 2012

    We would like to invite you to the upcoming conference "Qualitative Social Science @ Harvard: Knowledge Production and Community," which will be held at CGIS and at the Center for European Studies on March 1st and 2nd.

  • Social Networks and Cooperation in Hunter-Gatherers

    By Emily Ware, January 25 2012

    A recent article in Nature, "Social Networks and Cooperation in Hunter-Gatherers," studies in detail the networks of the Hadza hunter-gatherer population, and compares the structural properties of the Hadza network to those found in networks of modernized populations.

  • Funding Opportunity! Travel Grants for the Secondary Data Analysis Initiative

    By Emily Ware, February 9 2012

    The Economic and Social Research Council of the United Kingdom is offering travel grants between the United States and the UK to potential applicants to its Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (see description below). The goal of the travel grant is to help facilitate and develop collaboration between potential UK and US project partners

  • Mapping Platform Developed by CGA Lowers the Barriers to Geospatial Collaboration

    Submitted by Press Release on January 17, 2012 - 6:18pm

    The Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard announces the release of Version 1.0 of WorldMap  (http://worldmap.harvard.edu), an open source platform which provides scholars anywhere in the world with the tools to discover, organize, visualize, create, share, and publish geographically referenced information.