Projects

Harvard CGA joined forces with MIT SUL in 2021 to use social media data to study the effects of climate change on people’s well being. To achieve this objective, we developed the Twitter Sentiment Global Index (TSGI) dataset, an open dataset for...

A key objective of multiple public health researchers the CGA works with is to find ways to improve the health of cohort members by calculating various social and environmental exposures at cohort member address locations. To aid this project objective...

Racing against the clock as development encroaches on important Kurdish heritage sites, a team of landscape archaeologists deploys drones and comparative image analysis to capture previously undetected ancient settlements. This project features research...

In collaboration with Dr. Marcia Castro of the T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health, the CGA analyzed the pattern of spread of COVID-19 cases and deaths in Brazil from February to October 2020. Weekly geographic centroids locations weighted by...

This project analyzed CDC published mortality data of a dozen major causes since 1999, and applied the Exponential Smoothing (ETS) algorithm to simulate the 2020 mortality rates per cause, per month and per state, assuming there was no COVID-19 pandemic...

Sponsored by NSF, this project is to build a comprehensive data repository of virus cases, associated social and natural information from different resources for sustainable archive; share data with the research communities through smart data discovery...

Nearly a year into the global pandemic, data on COVID-19 metrics for the United States Congressional Districts (CD) had not been readily available. Yet, having access to such data can substantially enhance the ability of elected officials and the...

In collaboration with OmniSci Technologies and the NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center, and in close coordination with Harvard Research Computing (FASRC), the CGA has deployed the OmniSci GPU database and PostGIS, on Harvard's large computation cluster....

A web map was created to aid the dissemenation of the Surgical Safety Checklist. The Surgical Safety team used the map to display participating hospital locations, and upload new hospital information and locations. Work performed for Dr. Atul Gawande...

Partisan segregation among people has important political and social implications. Historically, such measurements have been limited to county levels but this innovative work enabled Harvard researchers to analyze partisanship down to the level of...