Tag: Wendy Guan

  • Science & Tech

    Live tracker notes COVID cases, deaths by congressional districts

    The Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies and Center for Geographic Analysis worked with Microsoft to create a live tracker that monitors the status of COVID cases, broken down by congressional district, to help officials develop testing and vaccine deployment strategies in their areas.

    2–4 minutes
    COVID Map.
  • Science & Tech

    New tool to battle illegal trade in animals

    Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis will work with United Nations University on a system that will allow users to track and map wildlife crime, and how it is related to a host of socioeconomic factors.

    3–5 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    A quake data clearinghouse

    Within hours of the massive earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis had launched a web-based data clearinghouse, the Japan Sendai Earthquake Data Portal, to provide a site where disaster responders can find needed information.

    2–3 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Online portal, created by Harvard center, improved on-the-ground earthquake response

    Count Harvard computer experts among those who responded swiftly to the deadly earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, throwing their expertise behind an effort to improve information flow for responders on the ground through a Web portal designed as a central data site. The Haiti Earthquake Data Portal was designed in the days following the Jan.…

    3–4 minutes
  • Science & Tech

    Portals into Haiti, Chile

    Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis created Web clearinghouses to aid information flow in response to Haiti’s and Chile’s earthquakes.

    3–4 minutes