Christopher Bail
Professor at Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Bail is a Professor at Duke University who blends sociology, public policy, and data science to study political polarization, extremism, and social psychology using social media data and machine learning. He directs the Polarization Lab and the Society-Centered AI Initiative, leads large-scale studies involving digital traces from millions of users, and has secured major fellowships and funding from NSF, NIH, and foundations. An award-winning author and public intellectual, his work appears in top academic venues and mainstream outlets and has influenced policymakers and social platforms struggling with polarization. Beyond research, he builds the field of computational social science as editor of an Oxford series and co-founder of the global Summer Institutes—where he also contributes as a full-stack developer to the program’s open-source materials. He regularly advises government, industry, and nonprofits, and his unusual combination of hands-on technical contributions and high-profile public engagement bridges academic rigor with real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Sociology at Harvard UniversityBachelor's degree, Political Science and Government, Bachelor's degree, Political Science and Government at Bowdoin College
Stackoverflow
307reputation
13kreached
11answers
2questions
Github Skills (14)
web-development10
ui-design9
ux-design9
r8
database-management7
latitude-longitude6
facebook-graph-api6
google-translate6
api6
kmeans6
webscraping6
cluster-analysis6
mean6
facebook6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
compsocialscience/summer-institute
Feb 2017 - Jun 2022
Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 632 commits, 19 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Christopher's commits primarily involve adding and modifying files within the project, suggesting a focus on feature implementation. Their contributions include updates to the Why SICSS presentation with new slides, likely indicating a role in UI development. The user also made changes to the bootcamp quiz files and created a database script.
pythonsciencesocial-sciencesummercomputational-social-science
cbail/textasdata
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:51 commits, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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