All practice areas are also supported by our two research centers:
The 2M Survey Research Center
Our onsite 56-seat Survey Research Center uses state-of-the-art technology and multimodal approaches that integrate mail, email, phone, and web modalities to facilitate a wide range of survey needs.
- Customizable survey solutions and advanced quality assurance tools
- Computer-assisted interviewing (CATI, CAPI, CARI, CADE)
- Cognitive monitoring and focus groups
- Nationwide field interviewing
- Information security and physical safeguards that comply with all applicable laws and regulations for the secure handling of federal data, including personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI)
- Training lab
- Interviewer training
- Economic experiments
- Real-time video/audio equipment to support recording and archiving of data collection activities
- Broadcasting that allows for the control of multiple camera feeds
- Additional apps to facilitate real-time interaction, such as voting or instant messaging
The 2M Statistical and Geospatial Innovation Center
We provide solutions to complex problems using advanced statistical solutions and high-performance computing resources.
- Big data mining, modeling, and simulation
- Spatial analysis and visualization
- Database creation and management, including merging large and diverse administrative databases
- Implementation of alternative estimation strategies for complex statistical models
- Merging large and diverse administrative databases
- Creating applications for GIS
- High-performance computing resources to support various approaches to parallelization, including harnessing the structure of Graphical Processing Units (GPUs)
