I am Professor of Sociology at Duke University. → More about me.  

Some of my Work

  • The Ordinal Society. Harvard University Press. » overview
  • Data Visualization. Princeton University Press. » overview
  • “Fuck Nuance.” Sociological Theory 35:118-127. » pdf
  • “Seeing Like a Market.” Socio-Economic Review, 15:9-29. » pdf
  • “The Performativity of Networks.” European Journal of Sociology, 56:175–205. » pdf
  • Last Best Gifts. University of Chicago Press. » overview

Some Recent Writing

October 28   GSS Release · October 25   Manhattan Plot of Manhattan · October 19   gssrdoc Updates · October 13   Parking Signs · October 8   Halloween in the Round · October 3   Iterating some sample data · August 21   The Road to Selfdom · August 7   Blueberry Hill · July 22   The Sound of Silence · July 9   Embeddable Mac

Some Favorite Things

American · The Naming of Stats · Excess Deaths in 2020 · What Happened? · The Kitchen Counter Observatory · This Be the Kirsch · Reconstructing Images Using PCA · Rituals of Childhood · Frank Oz Muppets and the Big Five Personality Traits · Statswars · Making Slides · Rank Error in Your Favor · Tironian Notes · America's Ur-Choropleths · Gender and Citation in Four General-Interest Philosophy Journals, 1993-2013 · This is Just to Say he Wishes · Academic Feedback · Monsters University: the Aftermath · Using Metadata to find Paul Revere · A Sociology of Steve Jobs · Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings · On Wasting One's Time · Invisible Hands · When the Pope came to Ireland · Sui Generis · The Dead of Winter · Books I Did Not Read This Year