Bio

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

Right now, I am building a trading card business called Card Shop Near Me in Princeton Jct, NJ. You can visit us at CardShopNear.Me, on Instagram, or in real life in the Princeton area!

I am also developing an open source Bayesian layers package called BLayers on top of Jax + Numpyro.

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

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

Consulting

If you’d like my advice or input on something technical, reach out via email and we can discuss. I offer consulting on experimentation, causal inference, and Bayesian statistics.