Bio

I’m a sociologist, data scientist, experimentalist, and builder.

I obtained my PhD in 2020 from Cornell University, where I studied under Michael Macy. My academic interests include social contagion, homophily in networks, online conversations, and experimental design.

I currently work on experimentation and Bayesian stats in the political realm.

Lately, I write on my substack blog before publishing elsewhere, and I’m active on twitter.

Some publications you may find interesting

• How to evaluate presidential election forecasts in less than 1000 years
• Empirical work on friendship loss after the 2016 election and its relationship to fears of social breakdown
• Field experiments for studying online conversations
• Fundamental problems for studying social influence in networks

I have also written a (hopefully) clear introduction to causal inference for folks studying web data.

Socials

• google scholar

• twitter

• github

• substack blog

• george.e.berry at gmail dot com

Work

I currently work as a Machine Learning Engineer at Blue Rose Research, where I focus on modeling and measurement.

Side hustles

If you’d like my advice or input on something, reach out via email and we can discuss. I get these requests a lot and I do charge for them, just so you know.

I co-own a small trading card store called Card Shop Near Me in central NJ (near Princeton). Come visit us if you’re in the area! Check out our Shopify store, Google Maps profile, eBay shop, and follow us on Instagram.