James Martherus
Research Scientist at Morning Consult
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolJames Martherus is a research scientist and computational social scientist with a decade of experience applying survey methodology, text analysis, and experimentation to improve data-driven decision making. At Morning Consult he builds tools to monitor survey quality, automates weighting targets, and implemented weighting adjustments that cut bias by over 12%, while also inventing methods to detect duplicate responses in historical data. His work blends rigorous academic training (Vanderbilt PhD) with practical engineering—creating internal apps, synthetic sampling frames via MICE, and an organization-wide analytics wiki at YouGov. James routinely leads primary research on respondent behavior and low-quality response detection, and has scaled text-mining projects from Twitter to 50GB news-transcript corpora. Based in Phoenix, he pairs methodological depth with a pragmatic focus on reproducible, auditable analytics that inform high-stakes clients and product teams.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA, Political Science and Government, Master of Arts - MA, Political Science and Government at Vanderbilt UniversityBachelor's degree, Political Science, Bachelor's degree, Political Science at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (34)
r-package10
survey10
qualtrics10
r9
missing-data9
r-language9
api9
tidy9
tidymodels9
modeling9
dplyr8
weighting8
tidyverse8
statistics7
music7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jamesmartherus/drumr
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Turn R into a Drum Machine
Contributions:1 release, 54 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
drummusicdrum-machine
jamesmartherus/anesr
Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
Easy access to ANES data in R
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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