Pablo Barberá
Research Scientist at University of Southern California
California, United States
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Top SchoolPablo Barberá is a research scientist at Meta and an associate professor of political science and international relations at USC with 13 years of experience at the intersection of computational social science and political behavior. He blends rigorous academic training (PhD from NYU) with production-oriented engineering, having contributed core functionality to the widely used Rfacebook package to programmatically access Facebook data. Based in California, he specializes in extracting, parsing, and structuring social media data for empirical research, turning messy APIs into analyzable datasets. His dual roles in industry and academia give him a rare ability to translate cutting-edge research questions into scalable data pipelines and reproducible analyses.
13 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at New York UniversityMR, MR at European University InstituteB.A., B.A. at Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Catalan, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
json10
apim10
jsonp10
json-parser10
api10
parsing10
facebook-api10
r10
package-development9
api-design8
tor6
ip6
facebook-graph-api6
twitter6
oauth6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pablobarbera/Rfacebook
Oct 2013 - May 2020
Dev version of Rfacebook package: Access to Facebook API via R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 174 commits, 21 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Pablo implemented core functionalities for the `Rfacebook` package. The primary focus was on developing functions to interact with the Facebook API, specifically for retrieving posts, comments, likes, and user information. The code changes involve constructing API calls, parsing JSON responses, and structuring the data into data frames. The user also made adjustments to the package's internal utility functions, such as those involved in processing the data retrieved from the API.
apifacebook-apidevfacebook
pablobarbera/social-media-workshop
Jan 2015 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 34 commits, 18 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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