I am Rob Jefferson, a Philadelphia-based policy researcher, data geek, punk rocker, and flâneur.
I am currently a research associate for Solutions for Progress, specializing in the development and analysis of innovative social enterprises. My work covers a variety of areas, from urban farming to health care, education to taxation.
I received my undergraduate degree in economics from Carnegie Mellon in 2008, and spent time from 2008 to 2010 as a graduate student at Northwestern University's economics department, where I subsisted on a steady diet of sandwich estimators (biased and otherwise), Pareto equilibria, and Wiener processes.
In my past, I have worked in several fields and industries, from business analysis for retail, to system administration for cancer research. If you want to hire me (for data analysis, statistical work, and so forth), I have a résumé, in both one- and two-page varieties.
I have a variety of interests, including photography, music, mathematics, sports, and programming.
Sometimes I update a blog, covering a variety of topics, but mostly about data and analytics.
I once did a radio show on WRCT, but that was forever ago.
I can be found at a number of other places, including but not limited to:
Send me email at "robert dot jefferson at techstep dot tychonoff dot org". (Remove, of course, one of the "dot"s and the reference to the esteemed Russian topologist.)