Matthew Vaneseltine
Assistant Research Scientist, Institute For Social Research at University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolMatthew Vaneseltine is an Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan with nine years of applied quantitative research experience and over a decade working with large-scale social science and administrative data. He designs and manages complex data pipelines and metadata systems, combining Stata, Python, and SQL to support multi-agency data collection and reproducible team workflows. His work bridges academic publication and practical policy use—producing peer-reviewed articles, conference presentations, extensive project documentation, and reports for non-academic stakeholders. Trained as a sociologist with a Ph.D. from Penn State, he brings deep expertise in causal inference and longitudinal analysis from prior faculty and research roles. Colleagues rely on him for technical support, teaching-ready training materials, and operationalizing administrative datasets into usable research products.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Sociology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Sociology at Penn State UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Sociology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy, Sociology at Beloit College
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Github Skills (94)
parser10
python10
data-manipulation10
http10
record-linkage10
http-client10
client-server10
clustering10
aiohttp10
async10
dataframes10
pandas10
formatter10
data-matching10
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vaneseltine/nominally
Jul 2019 - Oct 2021
A maximum-strength name parser for record linkage.
Contributions:315 commits, 6 PRs, 246 pushes in 2 years 3 months
maximumdata-matchingrecord-linkagelinkagedata-science
vaneseltine/vaneseltine.github.io
Nov 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:52 pushes, 3 branches, 1 comment in 4 years 9 months
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