Taylor Arnold
Professor at University of Richmond
Richmond, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolTaylor Arnold is a professor and data scientist who applies corpus-based methods and software to study how messages are communicated through visual and multimodal time-based media like television and film. With a PhD in Statistics from Yale and over a decade of interdisciplinary research experience, Taylor bridges linguistics, statistics, epidemiology, information science, and media studies to study both production and reception of mediated messages. As Director of the Distant Viewing lab at the University of Richmond, they develop tools and pipelines for large-scale analysis of audiovisual corpora. Prior industry experience as a senior scientist at AT&T Labs and roles at IBM and Travelers underpin a pragmatic, production-aware approach to research software. Taylor’s work is notable for combining rigorous statistical modeling with practical software engineering to make multimodal data and methods reusable across fields. Based in Richmond, VA, they focus on reproducible, collaborative projects that translate complex media phenomena into quantifiable insights.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at Yale UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics at Bowdoin College
Github Skills (96)
digital-humanities10
network-analysis10
data-management10
api10
r-package10
linked-open-data10
columns10
text-analysis10
r9
ckan9
corenlp9
python9
hosting9
stat9
data-mining9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
distant-viewing/photogrammar-data
Jul 2020 - Aug 2022
Contributions:1 release, 2 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 1 month
statsmaths/stat395-f17
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:200 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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