Data Science

Network Analysis is a commonly encountered problem in GIS. Researchers are increasingly working with big geospatial datasets that contain millions of records. At this scale, traditional GIS methods of network analysis fall short and new approaches are...

This project involved creating geospatial measures for ~2,000 public firms from the Infogroup US Historical Business Dataset. One of the tasks involved calculating the following variables at the census block group level from the dataset for 23 years of...

The list of work order tickets for Detroit provided by the researcher was converted into a GIS polygon data set containing 355,500 polygons using Python script in ArcGIS Pro. Polygons were mapped using the string of coordinates found in the “Polygon”...

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...