The Frances Loeb Library at the Harvard Graduate School of Design is seeking an energetic and forward thinking individual to serve as the GIS, Data and Research Librarian. This position is one of a team of librarians that coordinates research and teaching support for the faculty and students at the GSD.
This position will provide data and GIS instruction and support services to faculty and students at the GSD and be responsible for research support in the areas of geospatial data...
CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
By: Bernd Resch
Abstract: The intensified migratory movements of the last few years are increasingly posing major challenges to authorities, municipalities, relief organizations and NGOs. Particularly, appropriate reception, transfer, supply and accommodation of refugees are still deficient because real-time data to ensure humanitarian security is greatly lacking. Thus, HUMAN+ aims to develop an integrative, near real-time situational awareness picture based on social media, in-situ imagery and remote sensing data. The initiative aims to detect and predict...
CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
By: Ming Lu
Abstract: Shanhaijing (山海经) was originally a book with both illustrations and text. However, its original ancient illustrations have been lost for at least two thousand years. The speaker will discuss his examination of historical research into the records of Shanhaijing’s ancient illustrations (i.e. the Jiudingtu 九鼎图), his understanding and interpretation of the Jiudingtu through the eyes of the ancient people, and his discoveries from the Jiudingtu. The speaker believes that the Jiudingtu he restored is the legendary...
CGIS South S050, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
By: Dr. Wei Luo
Abstract: Human interaction and population mobility determine the spatio-temporal course of the spread of an airborne disease. This research views such spreads as geo-social interaction problems, because population mobility connects different groups of people over geographical locations via which the viruses transmit. Previous research argued that geo-social interaction patterns identified from population movement data can provide great potential in designing effective pandemic mitigation. However, little work has been...
CGIS South S020, 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA 02138
By: Dr. Alex Liu, Chief Data Scientist, IBM & Director, RMDS Lab
Abstract: More and more organizations are embracing data science, but the success ratios of data science projects have been low - at the 30% level for years per surveys conducted by Gartner and others. To attack this problem and help mitigating risks of other associated issues such as the high turnover ratio of data scientists, an ecosystem approach with AI...
