About Us
Rubinford Data Analytics was founded to provide simple and straightforward insights to businesses on an ‘as needed’ basis. In the vast majority of instances, startups and legal firms don’t need a statistician or data scientist on staff. What we provide is a case-by-case evaluation of a firm’s data potential, offering evidence based approaches to providing insights—for your team, your shareholders, or your clients. We don’t aim to replace an in-house data team. We want to support you at critical points to allow you to leverage the best insights available. And we want to do so in a way that your whole team can access. We believe that accessible communication is the hallmark of genuine understanding.
Our name comes from the discovery of Vera Rubin and William Kent Ford Jr. who jointly identified the cosmological phenomenon demonstrating the existence of dark matter in the universe. It is now referred to as the Rubin-Ford effect. Being past-life physicists, Vera Rubin in particular is an inspirational figure to our team, and the identification of dark matter is an elegant parable for the need to look closer at the world to truly understand what’s there.
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Team
Lead
William J. Berger
William has a decade and a half of research and academic experience at some of the world’s most prestigious institutions. He has taught at the University of Michigan, with a research position with the Center for the Study of Complex Systems there, before taking a position at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn he has taught both undergraduates and graduate students in mathematical methods, as well as contributing research to Penn’s Behavioral Ethics Lab and the Computational Social Philosophy Lab.
Education
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
PhD, 2015
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
AB, 2005
STATISTICAL CONSULT
Adam Sales
Adam is a black-belt statistician by training, whose work focuses on the nexus between causal inference, big data, and measurement. After finishing his PhD in statistics at the University of Michigan, he went on to a post-doctoral fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University. He is now the director of the SMARTER Consulting at the University of Texas at Austin, where he provides hands-on quantitative consulting for research professionals in education there. In the fall he will start as an Assistant Professor of statistics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA.
Education
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
PhD, Statistics, 2013
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
BA, Physics, 2005