Gary King and Nathaniel Persily

We are excited to announce that Social Science One and Facebook have completed, and are now making available to academic researchers, one of the largest social science datasets ever constructed. We processed approximately an exabyte (a quintillion bytes, or a billion gigabytes) of raw data from the platform.  The dataset itself contains a total of more than 10 trillion numbers that summarize information about 38 million URLs shared worldwide more than 100 times publicly on Facebook (between 1/1/2017 and 7/...

Four scholars contextualize India’s controversial citizenship amendments within the history of imperial rule, mobility, and itinerancy in South Asia.

By Swati Chawla, Jessica Namakkal, Kalyani Ramnath, Lydia Walker

... Read more about Who Is a Citizen in Contemporary India?

Sermon by Professor Stephanie Paulsell, Interim Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and the Susan Shallcross Swartz Professor of the Practice of Christian Studies in the Harvard Divinity School. (Photo by Jeffrey Blackwell/Memorial Church...

HELIX Classroom allows your students across the world to feel fully included in your classroom. HELIX Classroom enables you to connect meaningfully with all your students, but what happens when your course is big? In this series, we’ll discuss best practices for teaching in a HELIX Classroom with a large number of students. 

The classic active learning technique, the think-pair-share, can work just as well in your HELIX Classroom. In think-pair-share, you pose a question to your students and invite them to turn to their neighbor to discuss the answer. The class then discusses the question together. While teaching in HELIX Classroom, you can have your in-person students turn to each other and break your Zoom students into breakout rooms. 

... Read more about Managing a large HELIX Classroom, Part I: Active Learning and Student Community