Brigham Adams
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrigham Adams is a data science entrepreneur and technical co-founder with 11 years of experience building research-driven technology organizations focused on truth, governance, and public engagement. Based in San Francisco, he has founded multiple ventures—most recently Polymathic, which bridges web2 data to the agentic AI economy—and previously led Goodly Labs, Public Editor, TagWorks, and Demo Watch, translating sociological research into scalable tools. Trained as a Ph.D. sociologist at UC Berkeley, he combines rigorous quantitative and qualitative methods with software and data architecture to design large-scale annotation, survey, and NLP systems. A seasoned communicator and invited speaker to bodies like the National Academies and the Nobel Committee, he often operates at the intersection of technology, public debate, and policy. Notably, his projects repeatedly marry crowd-powered annotation and experimental design to create high-quality training data and civic-facing research platforms.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Sociology, Ph.D. Sociology at University of California, BerkeleyB.A. Philosophy Political Science, B.A. Philosophy Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis
Github Skills (35)
r-package9
ushahidi9
toolbox6
logic5
annotator5
algorithms4
jekyll4
lambda4
crowd4
jupyterlab4
docker4
docker-container4
jquery3
jupyter-notebook3
xml3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Goodly/LTD
Feb 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
Goodly/CapitolQuery
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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