Andrew Ballard
Assistant Professor at Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Ballard is an assistant professor and political scientist with a decade of experience studying American politics, political methodology, and the effects of money on public opinion, campaigns, and legislative behavior. Trained at Duke (Ph.D.) and with prior appointments at American University, he combines rigorous text-as-data and prediction techniques with traditional survey and institutional analysis. Proficient in R, LaTeX, and design tools like Photoshop and InDesign, he blends technical reproducibility with polished presentation of research. Based in Tallahassee, he brings a track record of research assistance and teaching in political psychology and institutions, and a pragmatic interest in making complex political data understandable and actionable.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Political Science at Duke UniversityBA, Psychology, BA, Psychology at University of Michigan
Github Skills (19)
parallel-processing5
r5
r-package4
predict4
parallelization4
ggplot4
duke4
spring4
cran4
visualization3
asynchronous3
distributed-computing2
hpc2
futures2
data-visualization2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PS733-S17/MLE_LAB
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:37 commits, 4 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 months
springdukeduke-universitylab
ballardao/abmisc
May 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 years 10 months
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