About
About Me
Hello! I am Professor Jack Reilly, author of this site as well as your instructor for the class. You can find more about me on my website, but in short:
I have a PhD in political science, with a focus on American politics and policy, quantitative data methods, and complex systems. Before that, I earned a BA in philosophy, where I focused on complex systems, artificial intelligence, and philosophy of mind.
Iโve been teaching for about 15 years now, at multiple different institutions, with teaching that spans across complex systems, statistical and data research methods, political behavior, American politics and policy, political theory, and artificial intelligence. I always look forward to teaching artificial intelligence policy, in particular, as itโs the class that most blends all of my interests together in one place - politics and policy, computation and data, philosophy, and minds. Itโs a wildy varied topic area - weโre in for a fun ride.
I also research and write papers on American politics and quantitative methods and was born and raised right here in beautiful Upstate New York. The outdoors here in upstate are some of the most varied in the nation - if you havenโt yet visited the Finger Lakes or the Adirondacks, you really should!
Technical Details
The site was built in Quarto in Postitron, and hosted on GitHub Pages. Iโm a big fan of reproducible technical workflows and open tools - if you are, or would like to learn more about them, you should take one of my other classes, Data Wrangling and Visualization, where we learn all about reproducible workflows, including how to make sites like this.
Credits and Acknowledgements
This course page was inspired, in spirit if not in all technical details, by related courses from Andrew Heiss and Kieran Healy. I am grateful to them for making their materials and course websites public. Other acknowledgements for particular content can be found in content pages and course slides.