SR is committed to changing the world by sharing our research in meaningful and innovative ways. In 2024, we were proud to see impactful research shared broadly through new methods.
The Criminal Justice Administrative Records System (CJARS) is a key example of such work over the last year. Its new Justice Outcomes Explorer (JOE) website, launched in May 2024, gives researchers (and the public) a first-of-its-kind look at the United States’ criminal justice system (see map above).
Also in May, the Center for Political Studies (CPS) launched the Subnational Geospatial Data Archive (SUNGEO). SUNGEO allows researchers and analysts to combine disparate datasets, accounting for conflicts and differences in scale from across many different data sources.
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) played a key role in a first-of-its-kind data release. In collaboration with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC), ICPSR helped create the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Longitudinal Dataset (HLD), which leverages more than 40 years of home mortgage data to give an unprecedented look into the historical effects of redlining and disinvestment on home ownership.
This year, ICPSR also launched a new tool called the “Researcher Passport.” The Researcher Passport works with the new NSF-supported Research Data Ecosystem. It allows researchers to safely and securely access and work with data at every step of the entire research lifecycle.
Warren Miller was one of the key early figures in the history of ISR. Miller established ICPSR at ISR’s Center for Political Studies to collect, curate, preserve, and disseminate social science data. Miller’s efforts to increase data sharing were crucial in growing ISR’s profile around the world, helping American researchers make key inroads with scholars across a range of disciplines.
