Tiago Ventura
Postdoctoral Researcher at The Center for Social Media and Politics at NYU
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolTiago Ventura is a computational social scientist and postdoctoral researcher at NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics who will join Georgetown University as an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science. With eight years of experience spanning academic research, a civic integrity role at Twitter, and teaching, he studies political communication, misinformation, news sharing, and polarization—especially across Latin America—using online field experiments, large-network models, and NLP. His comparative work also examines criminal violence and inequality, blending substantive regional expertise with rigorous causal methods. Fluent in both data collection from diverse digital APIs and experimental design, he brings a rare mix of hands-on data engineering and theory-driven social science.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computational Social Science and Comparative Politics, Ph.D., Computational Social Science and Comparative Politics at University of MarylandBachelor's degree, Law, Bachelor's degree, Law at Federal University of ParáDoctor's Degree, Political Science and Government, Doctor's Degree, Political Science and Government at State University of Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English, Spanish
Github Skills (66)
hugo-theme10
python10
forestry10
science10
netlify10
jupyter10
rmarkdown10
page-builder10
rstudio10
computational-social-science10
r9
hugo9
cms9
blogdown9
open-science9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TiagoVentura/venturatiago.com
May 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:172 commits, 189 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
TiagoVentura/conjoints_tweets
Apr 2022 - Nov 2023
This repository develops a python program to create image-based conjoints with social media messages
Contributions:3 PRs, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
pythonpython3social-media
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