R. Michael Alvarez has taught at the California Institute of Technology his entire career, focusing on elections, voting behavior, election technology, and research methodologies. He has written or edited a number of books (recently, Computational Social Science:  Discovery and Prediction, and Evaluating Elections: A Handbook of Methods and Standards) and numerous academic articles and reports. 

Nathaniel Beck is Professor of Politics at NYU (and Affiliated Faculty at the NYU Center for Data Science) where he has been since 2003, before which he was Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the founding editor of the quarterly, Political Analysis. He is a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Society for Political Methodology.

Betsy Sinclair is Professor and Chair of Political Science at Washington University in St Louis. Her research focuses on social influence and American political behavior. She is a fellow of the Society of Political Methodology and has served as an associate editor of Political Analysis and in leadership roles in The Society of Political Methodology and Visions in Political Methodology.

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