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GIS is incredibly powerful: you can transform, overlay, and analyze data with a few clicks. But sometimes the challenge is getting your data into a form to be able to use with GIS. Have you ever been stuck on...Read more about From paper to vector: converting maps into GIS shapefiles

Genomic data is essential for studying evolutionary biology, human health, and epidemiology. For example, genomic data is used to track the...Read more about Acquiring Genomic Data from NCBI

Monitoring technologies (e.g., satellites, smart phones, acoustic recorders) are creating vast amounts of data about our earth every day. These data hold promise to provide global insights on everything from biodiversity patterns to vegetation change at increasingly fine spatial...Read more about A Brief Introduction to Cloud Native Approaches for Big Data Analysis

Since its creation in 2000, the show Survivor has dropped approximately 20 contestants in a remote location and forced them to hunt for their own food and build their own shelter. While a test of physical endurance, the social dynamics and strategy are what make the show stand out from...Read more about Can Machine Learning Models Predict Reality TV Winners? The Case of Survivor

The code for this blog post is available in this GitHub repository. You can also follow along in this ...Read more about Twitter Text Analysis: A Friendly Introduction, Part 2

ChatGPT is a natural language processing (NLP) model that has emerged as a powerful tool for a wide variety of use cases. Created by OpenAI using a deep learning model trained through reinforcement learning from human feedback, ChatGPT is able to understand and...Read more about Using Artificial Intelligence to Help Write Code

D-Lab is excited to share with you the publication of two articles and associated datasets on which D-Lab staff and student researchers worked in collaboration with Prof. Bryan Wagner, PI of the Louisiana Slave Conspiracies Project (...Read more about Black History Data

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in measuring specific unobserved constructs such as individuals’ attitudes,...Read more about Testing for Measurement Invariance using Lavaan (in R)

As D-Lab alumni, we are excited to introduce our pre-print “...Read more about Introducing “A Three-Step Guide to Training Computational Social Science Ph.D. Students for Academic and Non-Academic Careers”

Last month, demographer and historian Steve Ruggles was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship for his work...Read more about Exploring Population Data with IPUMS