Nathaniel Poor
Founder at Underwood Institute
Louisville, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolNathaniel Poor is a founder and computational social scientist with a PhD in communication studies from the University of Michigan and over a decade of experience turning messy online media and game data into clear, actionable insights. He combines quantitative and qualitative methods—case studies, web scraping with Python and regex, R visualizations with ggplot and Gephi, and survey design—to answer questions at the intersection of technology and society. Comfortable both in academic and applied settings, he has held roles from lecturer and research associate to data fellow and political data volunteer, and now leads the Underwood Institute. His background uniquely blends humanities, mathematics, and early computing (learned Pascal on a VAX) with modern data tooling, and he enjoys digging into syntax and tooling details—whether tweaking SPSS scripts in the past or crafting reproducible R and Python workflows today. Based in Louisville, KY, he is as comfortable managing projects and presenting findings as he is elbow-deep in messy datasets.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
General AssemblyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of MichiganBB&NBS, BS at Hobart and William Smith Colleges
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
61reputation
24kreached
1answer
0questions
Github Skills (11)
gephi9
java7
opengl7
graph7
visualization7
ggplot6
interactive6
r6
publish4
latex4
csv1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
natpoor/title_compare
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes in 5 months
natpoor/natpoor.github.io
Sep 2015 - Nov 2016
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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