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Connor Gilroy
Employment
University of Washington
N/A
Seattle, WA
present - 2015
Graduate Teaching Assistant & Instructor: Taught sections and courses including sociological theory, data and society (undergraduate); social statistics, data science and population processes, Bayesian statistics for the social sciences (graduate); digital demography and word embeddings for social sciences (workshops)
Graduate Research Assistant: Analyzed Twitter networks of US homeless care organizations; built a web crawler and a PostgreSQL database to collect and store text data from nonprofit and government webpages (with Zack Almquist). Built an agent-based network model of public opinion change (with Katherine Stovel)
Meta
N/A
Seattle, WA
summer 2022, 2021, 2020
Data Science Intern (2022): Analyzed feed engagement with reshared Facebook Groups content, presented insights to the Director of Data Science for Communities, built a data pipeline to create a new metric, reanalyzed a collection of experiments to quantify tradeoffs between types of content, and launched a new experiment to assess incremental value of reshared content (Communities Ecosystem team)
Quantitative User Experience Research Intern (2020, 2021): Designed and conducted two studies (log data analysis with random forest models, behaviorally-targeted followup survey) of factors driving initial participation in new online communities (2020, Community Creation team). Designed, fielded, and analyzed a complex stratified survey of job seeker needs and satisfaction; wrote a widely-referenced technical guide to creating inverse probability weights for nonresponse using an internal Python tool; evaluated quality of an external vendor’s missing data imputation for a sensitive survey question (2021, Commerce Ecosystem team)
The World Bank Group
N/A
Washington, DC
2020
Consultant, Survey Data Analysis: Created statistical models and data visualizations of gender-based disparities in Central Asia; wrote reproducible R pipeline for updating reports with new waves of survey data
Epic Systems Corporation
N/A
Verona, WI
2015 - 2013
Quality Assurance: Automated and manual software testing for web APIs and enterprise healthcare software
Education
PhD, Sociology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
expected 2023
Dissertation: “Expressions of Community: Understanding Variations in Community through LGBTQ Experiences.”
MA, Sociology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
2018
Thesis: “How Distinct is Gay Neighborhood Change? Patterns and Variation in Gayborhood Trajectories.” Distinguished Thesis Award in Social Sciences, 2019. Joined webscraped and geocoded gay bar data with Census data to statistically compare trajectories of change in gayborhoods to matched neighborhoods.
BA, Biology and Geophysical Sciences
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
2013