The Geography of Human Flourishing
September 17, 2025 11:00 am (Central Time)
Abstract
The Geography of Human Flourishing project explores Harvard’s archive of 10 billion geolocated tweets (from 2010 to mid-2023) through the lens of the six domains of human flourishing defined by the Global Flourishing Study (GFS). Using fine-tuned large language models (LLMs) at scale, the project extracts 46 indicators corresponding to these domains to create high-resolution spatio-temporal datasets. For the I-GUIDE Spatial AI Challenge, the project focuses on a U.S.-based subset of 2.2 billion geolocated tweets to develop interactive dashboards and scalable analytical workflows that examine patterns of human flourishing across geographic contexts. This talk will present the dataset analyzed, methodological approach, key findings, lessons learned, and proposed next steps.
Speakers

Stefano Iacus
Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Devika Jain
Center for Geographical Analysis, Harvard University
At CGA, Devika Jain leads initiatives in GeoAI, Spatial Data Science and Big Data using High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Cloud Computing. She has led the development of impactful solutions, including TSGI (a UN-recognized spatial well-being metric), RINX- a transformative tool for the handling of raster big data , and a novel K-NN method enabling the first individual-level analysis of partisan segregation in USA. She has also spearheaded the development of university-wide Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)