Will Lowe
Senior Research Scientist at Human Rights Law Centre - University of Nottingham
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolWill Lowe is a Senior Research Scientist and educator based in Berlin with 14 years of experience at the intersection of statistical text analysis, causal inference, and public policy. He has designed two master's programs, taught core data science courses, and held research and teaching posts at institutions including Princeton, Harvard, Mannheim, and Maastricht. A long-time R developer and contributor to prominent text-analysis tooling (notably contributions to the widely used quanteda package), he combines practical software engineering experience (Java, Django) with deep methodological scholarship from a PhD in cognitive science. His recent work focuses on applied causal inference, fairness, and policy applications, while a Bayes-oriented mindset informs his approach even when samplers aren’t running. Outside academia he maintains public-good legal data projects and remains a top 1% answerer on Stats StackExchange, reflecting a sustained commitment to open-source and community impact.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Cognitive Science, PhD, Cognitive Science at The University of EdinburghBA, Philosophy, BA, Philosophy at University of Warwick
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
natural-language-processing10
r10
xml8
pdf6
windows6
sweave6
time-series6
dictionary6
ggplot6
miktex6
confidence-interval6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
quanteda/quanteda
Jun 2016 - Nov 2017
An R package for the Quantitative Analysis of Textual Data
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Will primarily contributed to enhancing the functionality of the `quanteda` R package for text analysis, specifically focusing on dictionary import and loading. They added support for the Yoshikoder dictionary format, including implementing a function to parse and load these dictionaries. They also fixed a typo related to the Yoshikoder loading mechanism and made a slight tweak to the loading procedure.
r-packagetext-analyticsquantedaquantitative-analysiscorpus
conjugateprior/cbp-border-zone
Feb 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:20 commits, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
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