I am a data scientist with a social science and military background. I have 10+ years experience working on client-driven projects in the defense and security, academic, and non-governmental sectors.
I’m American, but live in Tallinn, Estonia. I have a Ph.D. in Political Science (2012).
If you are interested in hiring me for a consulting engagement, get in touch or check out my LinkedIn profile for more information.
As a voluteer side project, I co-founded and organize PyData Tallinn, which has grown to 500+ members and collaborations with multiple global tech companies in Tallinn and Tartu.
Where you can find me
What else is here
For a list of academic publications, see my research page.
For a period of time, I used to blog.
POLECAT event data: Some resources for the POLECAT event data, which is available at https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/POLECAT.
et1000: the 1,000 most common Estonian words: Estonian is a somewhat boutique language. At the time I did this, you couldn’t find a list of the most commonly used Estonian words online, so I made this.
R package doc pages
icews: The ICEWS event data consists of more than 270 million event data records extracted from global news stories. The raw data is delivered via dataverse. The icews R package automates the process of keeping an up to date local copy, using either a file- or SQLite-based storage backend.
states: I used to frequently work with global data for independent states. This package has some utility functions for making it easier to work with the two major lists of state system membership, Gleditsch & Ward and COW.
spduration: Implements a time-varying covariate split-population duration regression model for survival data where an unknown portion of the cases are immune from failure. These are sometimes also called cure models.
Bonus trivia
The 5th most interesting thing about me is that at the 2017 MyFitness Madness City Race at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, I was, due to a clerical error, part of the best all-female team. (I had gone as a team with my wife and two other women. We have the trophy at home.)