David Barney
Senior Quantitative Social Scientist
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Barney is a Senior Quantitative Social Scientist based in Cambridge, MA, with eight years of applied research and analytics experience helping organizations turn emergent business questions into actionable strategy. He has led survey and workforce research across sectors including insurance innovation, media, higher education, and labor-market analytics, blending rigorous political science training with practical program-facing insights. At Acrisure he focuses on survey research to inform product and organizational decisions, building on prior roles managing HCM research at Lightcast and applied analytics at WarnerMedia. Known for translating complex social data into clear business recommendations, he pairs quantitative methods with stakeholder-centered communication to drive adoption. An early career rooted in major academic polling projects gives him uncommon depth in survey design and public-opinion measurement for industry contexts.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
UMass LowellMaster of Arts - MA, Political Science and Government, Master of Arts - MA, Political Science and Government at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (2)
r4
data-analysis2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
davidjbarney/r-survey-cheat-sheet
Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
Reference guide for survey data analysis in R
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 4 months
data-analysisr
davidjbarney/davidjbarney.github.io
Sep 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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