Welcome to Riki Conrey's sandbox

I am a psychologist and data scientist interested in how people change their minds. This little sandbox holds some toys that I've made--analyses using small amounts of data from a wide variety of sources to address very small parts of the problem of bringing people together.

Into the category of tactics falls this project that I did for Crack the Code where I literally brought together mentoring pairs based on their shared interests using a social graph: Mentor Match

I gave a little lightning talk about some of what I've been working on at 2018 Crack the Code: Perfecting Persuasion

I think we can learn a lot about how persuasion happens by studying authentic conversations that people have about divisive issues. As an example, analyzed a very small sample of exchanges about abortion to find out how emotional tone affects responses