David Shor co-founded Blue Rose Research and leads its data science work, using polling, experiments and statistical models to help progressive organizations make decisions. He previously led political data science at Civis Analytics and built election forecasting tools for Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign.
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David Shor co-founded Blue Rose Research and leads its data science work, using polling, experiments and statistical models to help progressive organizations make decisions. He previously led political data science at Civis Analytics and built election forecasting tools for Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign.
Career
David Shor studied at Florida International University (B.S. in Mathematics) and Higher School of Economics, Moscow (Mathematics study, 2009–2010).
Co-founder and Head of Data Science at Blue Rose Research from 2020-06 to PresentLeads data science for a team developing polling, message testing and decision tools for progressive organizations. His recent research also examines public attitudes toward AI and policy responses.
Head of Political Data Science at Civis Analytics from 2012-12 to 2020-06Led survey methodology, randomized controlled trials and automated election forecasting. Managed a software and machine-learning team focused on measurement and decision science, and led development of the VoteWithMe app.OFBattleground State Elections Analyst at Obama for America from 2012-01 to 2012-11Developed and maintained the campaign’s Golden Report election forecasting system and worked on polling quality control and models for resource allocation.
SDFounder at Stochastic Democracy from 2008-08 to 2012-01Built election forecasts, a multi-state voter database and automated telephone polling tools for candidates and nonprofits.
PUVisiting Student Research Collaborator at Princeton University from 2010-02 to 2011-04Worked on neuroscience and quantitative political science, including three-dimensional reconstruction, event detection and election forecasting.
Volunteer, Van Dyk for State Senate at Democratic Party of Montana from 2010-10 to 2010-11Developed a Bayesian voter-turnout system combining party databases and probabilistic partisanship estimates for the state senate campaign.