Dean Eckles
Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDean Eckles is a social scientist and applied statistician who bridges rigorous causal inference, network methods, and experimental design with real-world product and policy impact. As William F. Pounds Professor of Management at MIT Sloan and Associate Director at MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems & Society, he studies how communication technologies mediate social influence and the spread of information while also inventing new analytical tools for field experiments and graph data. His work blends academic depth (PhD in Communication and MS degrees in Statistics and Symbolic Systems from Stanford) with industry experience at Facebook and Twitter, where he shaped experimentation platforms and methods for large-scale social systems. Notably, he repeatedly translates methods into products and interfaces, bringing statistical rigor to practical design and engineering decisions.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Communication, PhD, Communication at Stanford University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
experiment10
programming-language9
interpreter9
r7
grammar7
dplyr7
arxiv7
data-transformation6
sparse-matrix6
statistics6
parser6
math6
matrix6
dataframe6
threshold6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
deaneckles/randomization_inference
Dec 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 2 months
inferencemachine-learningrandomization
facebookarchive/planout
Mar 2014 - Apr 2014
PlanOut is a library and interpreter for designing online experiments.
Contributions:41 commits, 1 comment in 17 days
online-experimentsplanoutguidelinesopenscienceprogramming-language
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