Oskar Rydén

Oskar Rydén's role as Data Scientist fulfills one of the core functions at the V-Dem Institute: the data collection, curation, and publication. The main assignment is to work with processing of the collected V-Dem data. This includes maintenance and development of data pipelines consisting of scripts in R, SQL, LaTeX, STATA, Bash, C++, JAGS, Stan, and others related to the processing of collected data. Quality control checks, data cleaning, running, and managing V-Dem’s Bayesian item response theory measurement model, run index aggregations, and the construction of the annual V-Dem dataset released every spring. Other assignments may include data collection, helping various research projects with modeling, analysis, and diagnostics, as well as authoring reports. Other assignments associated with the V-Dem data and general operations may be assigned by the Research Software Engineer as needed.