Dear PolMeth community,

Please feel free to get in touch if you are interested!

*Opening: Postdoctoral Project Lead for Election Monitoring*

The McGill Center for Social and Cultural Data Science (CSCDS) seeks a
motivated post-graduate to lead the data science team for an election
monitoring research project.  This project is a collaboration between CSCDS
(PI: Professor Derek Ruths, School of Computer Science) and the McGill Max
Bell Public Policy School (PI: Professor Taylor Owen).  The focus of our
project is on the online dynamics of the upcoming 2019 Canadian elections.
We have two major goals.  First, to perform real-time monitoring and
reporting on the election-related online activities.  This will include
media outreach, conducting in-depth investigations into specific events and
trends, and preparing large-scale analyses of online activity patterns.
The second goal will be, in the months following the election, to design
and publish a number of high-impact academic publications on the Canadian
election, methods used to track it, and best practices for future election
monitoring efforts.

In order to achieve these goals, we’re looking for an enthusiastic
computationalist who can

   -  architect and implement data processing pipelines capable of
   ingesting substantial social media and traditional media streams,
   -  apply and develop novel discourse and network analysis algorithms,
   -  execute or manage detailed, rapid case studies to investigate
   specific trends in online data
   -   think critically about how findings relate to political behavior and
   campaign activities

The ideal candidate will have:

   - A PhD in a social or computational science
   - Experience building high-performance, robust data processing and
   analysis pipelines
   - Experience designing and conducting discourse analysis using NLP
   techniques (e.g., topic modeling, sentiment analysis)
   -  Experience with latent attribute inference for online accounts
   -  Experience with using network analysis techniques to study social
   network structure
   -  Management skills for running a small, agile data science team
   - Some knowledge of Canadian politics with an appetite to learn a lot
   more
   - Strong interdisciplinary and public communication skills


This position is for 1 year with the option to extend to a second year.
Annual salary range is $60k – 80k CAD depending on qualifications.  We are
looking to fill this position as soon as possible, with a start date no
later than June 1, 2019.  If interested, please send a resume and statement
of interest to [log in to unmask]

*About the Centre*

The McGill Centre for Social and Cultural Data Science is an
interdisciplinary centre fostering research and training excellence at the
intersection of quantitative and computational methods and studies of
social and cultural phenomena.  The Centre runs a number of programs
including data science bootcamps, summer internships, a speaker series, and
a research idea accelerator.  A post-doctoral appointment to the Centre
affords access to an interdisciplinary community of faculty and a wide
array of resources across campus.

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