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Stokes Viz Hub

The Stokes Visualization Hub is a space and service, that responds to the evolving digital research, data visualization, and qualitative analysis needs of the Princeton Students and Faculty, with a focus on SPIA and the related social sciences.

Data Visualization Consultants

Derek Wenning

Software:
  • Stata
  • Julia
  • Python
Background: Derek is a PhD candidate in the Economics department. His work is predominantly in macroeconomics, with a focus on the role of economic networks in facilitating macroeconomic fluctuations. He employs a variety of statistical and computational techniques in his research. Previously, he received a BA in Economics and a BS in Mathematics at Indiana University.
Languages: English

Rachel Brown-Weinstock

Software:
  • MaxQDA

  • ATLAS.ti

Background: Rachel is a doctoral candidate in Sociology and Social Policy. Her research explores mechanisms that reproduce American racial and class inequality. She is especially interested in white politics and the contextual, institutional, and intergenerational socialization of racial and political ideologies. She employs qualitative methods, including ethnography, in-depth interviews, and text-analysis of historical material.

Languages:

English

Anthony Taboni

 
Software:
  • R/RStudio

  • Python

  • Stata

Background: Anthony is a PhD candidate in Politics. He studies American political institutions with a special focus on the US Courts of Appeals. Their research utilizes text analysis, network analysis, machine learning, and traditional statistical methods. Before coming to Princeton, they earned a BA in Mathematics and Political Science at SUNY at Buffalo. 
Languages:

English, German

Hunter York

Software:
  • R/RStudio

  • LaTeX/Overleaf

  • Git

Background: Hunter is a PhD candidate in Sociology. His work is quantitative in nature and focuses on inequalities centered around work itself, looking at the changing nature of occupations from organizational- and systems-level perspectives. Prior to coming to Princeton, he received a BA in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard and a MPH from the University of Washington.
Languages:

English

Sam Kosai

Software:
  • MaxQDA

  • NVivo

  • REDCap

Background: Sam Kosai is a PhD student in Sociology and Social Policy. They study how the medical and criminal legal system work together to perpetuate social and economic inequalities. Their work is qualitative in nature, including ethnographies to interviews. Sam also has experience translating research into easily shareable materials, such as infographics, memos, and other public dissemination methods.
Languages:

English

Max Fineman

Software:
  • R/RStudio

  • LaTeX/Overleaf

  • High-performance computing clusters/parallel programming

Background: Max is a PhD candidate in Sociology & Social Policy. They study questions in the political economy of housing and race. Their work combines large-scale administrative data with quantitative and computational methods, especially causal inference. Prior to coming to Princeton, Max received a BA in philosophy from Columbia and worked as a research assistant at MIT. 
Languages:

English