Surveys, Sampling & Interviews

Kamya Yadav

Senior Data Science Fellow 2024-2025, Data Science Fellow 2023-2024
Political Science

Kamya is a third year PhD student in the Department of Political Science. Using multimethod research, she studies gender, representation, and political parties in India to understand the barriers and pathways to women's political participation and representation. She has a BA in Politics from Princeton University.

Jailynne Estevez

Consultant
Info & Data Science MIDS

Jailynne Estevez is a Data Analyst and a prospective Masters in Information and Data Science candidate at UC Berkeley. With a bachelor's in Public Policy, she brings a diverse skill set to her pursuits, demonstrating aptitude in data analysis and programming.

Claudia von Vacano, Ph.D.

Founding Executive Director, P.I., Research Director, FSRDC

Dr. Claudia von Vacano is the Founding Executive Director and Senior Research Associate of D-Lab and Digital Humanities at Berkeley and is on the boards of the Social Science Matrix and Berkeley Center for New Media. She has worked in policy and educational administration since 2000, and at the UC Office of the President and UC Berkeley since 2008. She received a Master’s degree from Stanford University in Learning, Design, and Technology. Her doctorate is in Policy, Organizations, Measurement, and Evaluation from UC Berkeley. Her expertise is in organizational theory and...

Theo Snow

Availability: By appointment only

Consulting Areas: Python, R, SQL, SAS, Databases & SQL, Data Manipulation and Cleaning, Data Science, Data Visualization, Geospatial Data, Maps & Spatial Analysis, Machine Learning, Mixed Methods, Qualitative methods, Surveys, Sampling & Interviews, Regression Analysis, Means Tests, Software Output Interpretation, Other, Excel, Git or Github, RStudio, RStudio Cloud, SAS, Tableau

Sakina Dhorajiwala

Availability: By appointment only

Consulting Areas: Python, R, Stata, LaTeX, Data Manipulation and Cleaning, Data Visualization, Mixed Methods, Qualitative Methods, Surveys, Sampling & Interviews, Regression Analysis, Excel, Git or Github, RStudio

Claudia von Vacano, Ph.D.

Availability: By appointment only

Consulting Areas: Digital Humanities, Mixed Methods, Qualitative methods, Surveys, Sampling & Interviews, MaxQDA, Career Development

Severin Saenz, MCP

Academic Program Manager III, Consultant
Department of City and Regional Planning

I'm a graduate of the Department of City and Regional Planning. My areas of expertise are affordable housing, k-12 education, and community economic development.

Yue Lin

Data Science Fellow 2024-2025
Political Science

Yue is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, with a Designated Emphasis on Political Economy. Using mixed methods, she studies foreign lobbying, geopolitical risk, and economic security to understand when, how, and why multinational corporations become the targets and weapons of state power rivalry.

Sohail Khan

Data Science Fellow 2024-2025
School of Information

Hey everyone, I’m Sohail - a 1st years Master’s student studying Data Science at the I-School. I am interested in the intersection between Computer Science, Data Science, and Cognitive Psychology and using these tools to understand, discover, and drive the development of assistive technologies.

I have experience building with brain computer Interfaces, developing distributed data processing applications, and am currently working on a large scale archival project aimed at preserving the history and memory of resistance movements through an embedding based...

Amanda Glazer

Instructor
Statistics

Amanda is a PhD candidate in the statistics department at Berkeley. Her research focuses on causal inference with applications in education, political science and sports. Previously she earned her Bachelor’s degree in mathematics and statistics, with a secondary in computer science, from Harvard.