Simon Munzert
Professor at Hertie School of Governance
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolSimon Munzert is Professor of Data Science and Public Policy at the Hertie School in Berlin and Director of the Data Science Lab, bringing 11 years of research and teaching experience at the intersection of political behavior and digital methods. He studies how attitudes form in the digital age, how policymakers consume evidence, and how online traces can be harnessed for social research using experiments, novel measurement strategies, and large-scale online data. Known for blending rigorous experimental designs with practical measurement innovation, he translates complex digital signals into actionable insights for public policy. Based in Berlin with a background in political science from the University of Konstanz, he combines academic leadership with hands-on data science—often revealing subtle links between online behavior and political decision-making that are easy to overlook.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Politics and Public Administration, Political Science and Government, Master of Politics and Public Administration, Political Science and Government at University of Konstanz
Github Skills (25)
scraper10
webscraping9
python8
science8
machine-learning7
parliament6
wikipedia6
data-science6
sports-data5
unconf5
r-package4
frontend4
tom3
crawler3
reproducible-research3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
simonmunzert/rscraping-jsm-2016
Jul 2016 - Dec 2022
Repository for one-day course "A Primer to Web Scraping with R"
Contributions:1 review, 18 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 6 months
primerdayscrapingweb-scrapingwebscraping
intro-to-data-science-22/lectures
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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