Peter Dahlgren
Researcher at Voodoo Film
Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area Sweden
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Top SchoolPeter Dahlgren is a researcher and data-focused programmer with a decade of experience bridging media studies and computational methods. Currently completing a PhD in political communication at the University of Gothenburg, he investigates selective exposure and its role in political polarization using survey experiments, causal inference, and advanced statistical modeling. He codes in R, Python, SQL and .NET, maintains open-source projects on GitHub, and applies text analysis, mixed-effects models, structural equation modeling and panel methods to large social datasets. Beyond academia, he has edited a long-running Swedish filmmaking site and co-produced a skeptical science podcast, reflecting a strong ability to communicate complex ideas to public audiences. Known for combining rigorous experimental design with practical software tooling, he brings interdisciplinary fluency across social psychology, digital methods and reproducible research.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Media and Communication, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Media and Communication at Linnaeus UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Media Effects and Political Communication, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Media Effects and Political Communication at University of Gothenburg
Swedish, English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
content-analysis10
computational-social-science9
science9
nlp9
journalism9
python6
uri4
url-parser4
psychology4
corpus3
specification3
redirect3
machine-learning3
sip2
submission2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
peterdalle/effectsizes
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 6 months
psychologypythonmachine-learning
peterdalle/pandoc
Aug 2017 - Jun 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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