The Harvard Data Science Initiative has recently granted four new Faculty Special Projects Fund awards to Harvard University faculty:
Sensing the Landscape
Craig Douglas (Harvard Graduate School of Design)
This project explores the use of sensor networks to monitor and visualize atmospheric conditions at Harvard’s House Zero, creating innovative data-visualizations for public exhibition.
A Large-Scale Analysis of P-Hacking
Sharad Goel (Harvard Kennedy School of Government)
Funding will enable the hiring of a research to validate the p-values collected and work to create a database along with collecting information on when the journals we are studying instituted data
sharing and preregistration policies.
Affordable Housing Siting and Environmental Health Vulnerability: An Overview of 25 Years of the French SRU Law Model
Magda Maaoui (Harvard Graduate School of Design)
This data-visualization project seeks to map the evolution and distribution of affordable housing in France over the past two decades, focusing on how it intersects with environmental vulnerabilities.
Polinature: A plug in public space open data project
Belinda Tato (Harvard Graduate School of Design)
The grant will enable the creation of an open-source publication to share findings from the Polinature project, with the goal of making its benefits accessible to a wider audience.