Nick Lewis

Nick Lewis

PhD candidate in Political Science

The London School of Economics and Political Science

About me

Hello! I’m an ESRC-funded doctoral student at LSE, examining the effects of digital technology on democratic deliberation. I focus on political behaviour and its interaction with communication, psychology, polarisation, and nationalism.

I have a broad range of research skills, applying computational methods (quantitative text analysis, machine learning, and social network analysis) in R and Python alongside field experiments and surveys. I’m currently also a General Teaching Assistant on the LSE course GV101 - Introduction to Political Science.

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Interests
  • Political behaviour
  • Computational social science
  • Political pscyhology
  • Political communication
Education
  • PhD in Political Science, 2020 - present

    London School of Economics and Political Science

  • MRes in Political Science, 2020-2021

    London School of Economics and Political Science

  • MSc in Government, Politics and Policy, 2016-2018

    Birkbeck, University of London

Skills

R
Python
political behaviour

Professional certifications

DataCamp
Data Analyst in SQL - Career Track
40-hour course in relational database management and analysis. Learned to query databases using SQL, join tables, write functions, and communicate results.
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97-hour course in applied data science using Python. Gained proficiency in data cleaning, manipulation, visualisation, statistical experimentation, and machine learning using pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib and sciPy.
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DataCamp
Object-Oriented Programming in R
95-hour course in applied data science using R. Gained proficiency in data cleaning, manipulation, visualisation, statistical experimentation, and machine learning using the tidyverse, dplyr, ggplot and more.
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