About

Pablo Barberá is a highly skilled Research Scientist and Associate Professor with a focus on quantitative political methodology and computational social science. He is currently a Research Scientist at Facebook's Core Data Science team, where he applies his expertise in social media data mining, natural language processing, and social network analysis to study political and social behavior. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California and affiliated with the Methodology department at the London School of Economics. With several years of experience programming in R and Python to collect and process large datasets, interact with database systems such as MySQL and MongoDB, and conduct statistical analyses and data visualization, Pablo is an active contributor to the open source community. He has authored several R packages, some available on CRAN, that interact with the Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram APIs. Pablo's research has been published or is forthcoming in high-impact journals, such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, PLOS ONE, the Journal of Communication, Public Opinion Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Psychological Science, Political Science Research and Methods, and Social Science Computer Review. His work has been cited by a range of media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, TIME, Mashable, and Wired. Pablo holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Political Science from New York University, where he was also a graduate research associate in the Social Media and Political Participation lab and a Moore-Sloan Post-Doctoral Fellow at the NYU Center for Data Science. He also earned an MR from the European University Institute, an M.A. from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and a B.A. from Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Pablo's technical skills include Research Scientist, Data Scientist, NLP, Python, MySQL, and MongoDB. With 4.36 years of relevant experience, he is a sought-after expert in his field. For more information, visit www.pablobarbera.com or check out his GitHub repositories at github.com/pablobarbera/.