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    PSR Hosts Eric C. Mindich Conference on Survey Quality

    April 14, 2009

    On April 17, 2009, the PSR hosted this year's Eric C. Mindich Conference on Experimental Social Science, which covered the topic of Survey Quality.  Conference speakers included some of the foremost experts in survey methodology, as well as leading experts in survey quality from government and the media.

    The conference was held from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. in the Tsai Auditorium, Center for Government and International Studies South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138. 

    Full information can...

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    Spring Workshop, April 8: An Introduction to Survey Research for Senior Thesis Writers

    January 28, 2010

    This two-hour workshop, led by PSR's Patrick Moynihan, will present an overview of the survey research process for undergraduate students approaching their senior thesis. This session will focus on some of the unique aspects of survey data, and will acquaint students with the resources within PSR as well as the university more broadly to accomplish a survey-based project.

    The workshop will take place in CGIS-South, Room S-153, from 5-7 pm.

    Contact Patrick Moynihan for more information (617-384-5663, pmoynihan@iq.harvard.edu).

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    Fall 2010 Classes

    July 28, 2010

    Fall 2010 classes start in September. Check out the eligibility and requirements and get started soon!

    No classes on September 6

    July 28, 2010

    Labor Day is an official holiday for Harvard so no classes will meet on September 6.

    Under Construction!

    August 31, 2010

    Our new website is under construction, we hope you can find what you need here in the meanwhile.  Please email crosenth @ fas.harvard.edu if you need anything.  

    Upcoming Fall Workshops

    September 9, 2010

    This fall PSR will offer several workshops targeted to undergraduate students using survey data in their honors theses.

    These workshops are geared toward honors thesis authors in the social sciences who are using original survey data in their theses or who plan to conduct analyses of pre-existing data. The workshops will cover different steps of the survey research process, and suggest how to effectively address and discuss potential problems with survey data collection. Contact pmoynihan@iq.harvard.edu for details.

    • Nov. 9, 4-5:30p, CGIS K-354, Sponsor: Department of...

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    Imaging Software Recommendation for HMDC Public Labs

    December 17, 2010

    Active @Disk Imaging software is one of the very useful imaging technologies which is capable of cloning the hard drive for a Windows 7 operating PC.

    More details on the product and its costs can be found at

    http://www.disk-image.net/order.htm

    It is least expensive and for the infrastructure IQSS/CGIS/HMDC has, this is a very worthy tool.

    Building a virgin image and storing it on an external drive and using it directly or over the network to reimage the "out of order" computers is very easy  and also faster when compared to a traditional imaging technology in...

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    Promoting World Community Grid

    December 17, 2010

    Be a human and donate your wasted CPU cycles to a wide range of projects computed by the massive grid available at

    http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

    Sponsored by IBM.

    Privacy and security:
    http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/viewMemberPolicy.do

    Privacy & security
    World Community Grid assures Members that applications will not damage their systems or invade their privacy in any way. Our agent runs unobtrusively in the computing background and is not invasive. It cannot detect or change any...

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    Welcome to CEM for SPSS!

    April 5, 2011

    We are happy to announce a beta version of CEM is available for SPSS. Even though there are versions of CEM available for R and Stata, we wanted to make sure that anyone could use this method, regardless of software preferences. The CEM extension bundle adds a CEM command along with a dialog box in the Analyze menu. Now you will be able to run CEM to find imbalances in the data and create matched datasets that reduce model dependence, bias, and inefficiency. We have sections on this site with installation instructions, usage notes, and troubleshooting tips. If you run into any problems,...

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    Welcome to the website of the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History

    May 14, 2011

    On this website you will find a full calendar of upcoming events, lists of faculty at Harvard and affiliated faculty at other institutions, plus recent posts and short essays by scholars in intellectual history.  To navigate around the website, please click on the appropriate link in the left-hand column.

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