Jamesย Allen-robertson
Data & Insights Officer
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJames Allen-robertson is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and computational social scientist with a decade of experience blending critical social theory, digital media history, and data-driven methods to study human-technology relations. Based at the University of Essex, he leads teaching and research that interrogates how big data and digital distribution reshape rights, governance, and cultural industries. His background includes interdisciplinary projectsโmost notably work on the ESRC-funded Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Projectโthat translate technical debates into policy-relevant human rights analysis. Trained with a PhD on the history of digital distribution, he combines archival and qualitative scholarship with computational approaches, making him adept at spotting structural patterns that others miss. Colleagues value his ability to move between rigorous theory and practical research administration, a strength rooted in early roles supporting major academic institutes.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Sociology 'Digital Culture Industry: A History of Digital Distribution', PhD Sociology 'Digital Culture Industry: A History of Digital Distribution' at University of York
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (84)
photo10
animated10
twitter10
gephi10
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python9
gif9
bert9
topic-models9
tf-idf9
nlp8
mining8
topic-modeling8
cluster-analysis8
clustering-evaluation8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Minyall/gephi_twitter_media_downloader
Mar 2019 - May 2022
A small script designed to take either a .csv of Tweet ids, or the export from Gephi's TwitterStreamingImporter Plugin and download related Tweet media.
Contributions:5 releases, 50 commits, 18 PRs in 3 years 2 months
gephipythontwittertwitterstreamingimportervideo
Minyall/sc207_materials
Oct 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:126 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
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