Cory Mccartan
Research Scientist at Penn State University
State College, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolCory Mccartan is a research scientist and assistant professor of statistics at Penn State with 12 years of experience applying computational social science methods and developing open-source R software. Trained at Harvard (PhD, MA) and Grinnell College (BA), he blends rigorous statistical theory with practical tooling to make social data analysis reproducible and accessible. His work sits at the intersection of statistics, social science, and software engineering, often focusing on scalable computational methods for real-world social questions. Beyond academia, he maintains an active open-source presence in the R ecosystem, prioritizing transparent code and reproducible workflows. Colleagues describe him as a researcher who turns complex methodological problems into usable software that accelerates collaboration across disciplines.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Grinnell CollegeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Harvard University
Github Skills (53)
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distributed-computing10
parallel-computing10
gpu10
census-data10
development-environment10
tabulate10
wolfram-language10
r-programming10
concurrency10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
CoryMcCartan/election-2016
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:707 pushes, 6 branches in 6 months
CoryMcCartan/chapel
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:94 pushes, 29 branches in 1 month
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