In collaboration with OmniSci Technologies and the NSF Spatiotemporal Innovation Center, and in close coordination with Harvard Research Computing (FASRC), the CGA has deployed OmniSci Immerse and PostGIS on ...

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, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 

View the Surgical Safety Web Map.
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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 individuals for the first time. In this work, CGA along with the Department of Government Professor Ryan Enos and graduate student Jacob Brown have leveraged advances in geospatial data science to measure partisan segregation down to the...

For elected officials to best represent constituencies they serve, information must be presented and analyzed for the entire geographic extent of their constituency. Health indicators are often collected and reported at census geographies, or other units that do not conform to constituency boundaries. To address this lack of health data being reported at policy relevant geographies, the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Geographic Insights team (...

This project provided print publication maps and a dynamic web-map (in progress) in conjunction with the exhibit, "Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings" on display at the...

CGA created maps that display PM 2.5 and Ozone for the US by County from 2000 - 2012, which involved cross-tabulation of monitoring sites within  county boundaries.

Investigators:  Francesca Dominici and Christine Choirat, Department of Biostatistics, HSPH

Research Staff:  Fei Carnes, Jeff Blossom

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The Out of Eden Walk is a 24,000-mile journalistic endeavor to create a global record of human life at the start of a new millennium as told by villagers, nomads, traders, farmers, soldiers, and artists who rarely make the news.  Sponsored and hosted by National Geographic Society...

Dataverse and WorldMap have been integrated by adding APIs to both systems (Funded by the Boston Research Initiative)

Three types of Dataverse file:

• Tables with columns containing latitude and longitude
• Tables with a column of known codes which represent geometries, i.e.  Zip, Census, FIPs, etc.
• Files of type “shapefile”, zip compressed.

For each of the 3 types one can:

• Create data-driven map symbolization options
• Obtain downloads in variety of spatial formats
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Funded by OmniSci Technologies, LLC. as a member of the I/UCRC Spatiotemporal Innovation Center
Can be hosted on Harvard Cannon Cluster, Amazon AWS, Mass Open Cloud, MapD Cloud.

Use cases:

• Improving access to hydrological models used in water management and public safety
• Analyzing how political partisanship affects the geographic sorting of voters

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Toward an Open Platform for Collaborative Research in the Digital Humanities.  Based on WorldMap, this project will host historical maps of Japan.

Funded by Ritsumeikan University.

Investigator:  Prof. Keiji Yano...

A new collaboration between Zhejiang University and Harvard was launched on October 13th, 2017.   The joint effort will build upon Harvard CGA's WorldMap to develop a Chinese Academic Mapping Platform for research, teaching, and data sharing.  Please see the Zhejiang...

CGA staff created maps and videos related to the 1947 British Partition of India for presentation at the World Economic Forum, 2017.  View the presentation at the Economic Forum by Tarun Khanna starting at minute 1:26 in the video, with the maps appearing at minute 6:27 and on.

Investigators:  Meena Hewett and Tarun...