Christopher Zorn
Liberal Arts Professor at Instats
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Zorn is a liberal arts professor at Penn State who blends political science, sociology, criminology, law, and information science with practical data analytics and visualization. With a Ph.D. from Ohio State and more than two decades in academia and public service—including roles at Emory, NSF, and the University of South Carolina—he researches courts, legal institutions, and applied machine learning for social science. He co-founded LawyerMetrics, a legal-industry analytics firm that served AmLaw 200 clients and was acquired by AccessLex, demonstrating his ability to translate scholarship into commercial impact. A longtime lecturer at GSERM and recent InStats expert, he trains researchers in empirical methods and social data analytics. Beyond publications and teaching, he advises legal organizations on implementing analytics-driven decision processes, combining scholarly rigor with pragmatic tool-building. His compact GitHub tagline—"Professing. Crunching. (Ka)Noodling."—captures a scholar who enjoys hands-on data play as much as theoretical work.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Political Science, Ph.D., Political Science at The Ohio State UniversityB.A., Political Science and Philosophy, B.A., Political Science and Philosophy at Truman State University
English, r
Github Skills (1)
panel-data4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
PrisonRodeo/PLSC473-git
Aug 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:76 commits, 72 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
PrisonRodeo/PLSC476-SP2021-git
Jan 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:96 commits, 89 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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