Simon Jackman
Self Employed
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolSimon Jackman is a political scientist and data scientist who applies cutting-edge methods to elections, surveys and campaign strategy, advising senior political, media and consultancy clients across Australia. A fellow of multiple learned societies and former President of the Society for Political Methodology, he blends academic leadership—from Stanford professorship to CEO of the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney—with practical machine-learning and polling design used in high-stakes campaigns. Author of the textbook Bayesian Analysis for the Social Sciences and a co-investigator on major election studies in both the US and Australia, he pairs deep methodological expertise (15,000+ citations, h-index 43) with hands-on deployment of frontier analytics. Based in Sydney, he now runs a consultancy that optimises resource allocation and survey ROI for clients, bringing an unusual combination of scholarly rigor and campaign-tested pragmatism.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA Hons, Government, BA Hons, Government at The University of QueenslandDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Political Science and Government at University of RochesterPolitical Science, Political Science at Princeton University
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Github Skills (11)
sports-data9
r-package8
science7
computational-science7
latex6
r-programming6
python6
cran6
pandoc5
markdown5
package-repository3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
simonjackman/sportsbet
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 commit, 242 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
simonjackman/rstudio
Nov 2019 - May 2020
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Contributions:43 pushes in 6 months
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