James Bain

Curriculum Vitae

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(Last Updated: January 2019)

Education

2019

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Missouri

2015

M.A. Anthropology, University of Missouri

2012

B.A. Anthropology, University of Missouri

B.A. French, University of Missouri

Academic Appointments

Graduate Research Assistant, University of Missouri

   May 2018 - Present

   CHAOSS Project, Open Source Software Health

    Sloan Foundation Grant

   May 2016 - May 2018

   Data Science and Analytics Master’s Program

    Instructor for DSA 7600, Introduction to Data Science

   May 2014 - Aug 2014

   Department of Plant Science, Corn Genetics & Breeding Lab

Graduate Instructor, University of Missouri

   August 2015 - May 2016

   Anthropology 2050, Introduction to Biological Anthropology

Invited Graduate Researcher, Université Montpellier II, France

   October 2013 - April 2014

   Department of Human Evolutionary Biology

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Missouri

   August 2014 - December 2014

   Anthropology 4580, Evolutionary Medicine

   Spring 2013 & Fall 2015

   Anthropology 2580, Evolution of Human Sexuality

Publications

Conference Papers

Bain J & S Googins (2018) Mining linguistic diversity as a signal for identifying regions likely to adapt to the changing nature of work. Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines at ACM GROUP. Sanibel Island, FL, USA.

In Preparation

Bain J, S Goggins & R Walker. (2019) Non-linear scaling of diversity in cities: bayesian analysis of migrant language communities across the United States.

 

Bain J S. Goggins & R Walker (2019) Scaling behavior of anti-immigrant sentiment: using Twitter to understand the linguistic geography of prejudice.

 

Bain J & L Cowgill (2019) Rodeo riders redux: a second look at Neanddertal patterns of trauma.

Other Publications

Bain J (2015) Is 2d:4d a stable trait during child development? (Master’s Thesis)

Presentations

Conference Presentations

Bain J & L Cowgill (2017) Rodeo riders revisited: a second look at neanderal patterns of trauma. Presented at the 86th American Association of Physical Anthropology. New Orleans, LA, USA.

Software

LOVELACE Lovelace is a convolutional neural network designed to learn the semantics of short, unstructured text, such as Tweets. Models can be trained to classify the sentiment, author or category of text given the appropriately labelled training data.

python tensorflow pandas numpy

 

HATERZMAPPER HaterzMapper extends subsetting functionality of geometric simple features for simpler geographic analysis. This includes integrating with US Census API wrapper, tidycensus, to provide further data collecting capabilities.

R tidycensus sf dplyr

 

CUTTLEFISH Cuttlefish is a color palette creator in which palettes can be created by supplying an image. Colors are selected by evenly spacing out colors on the color hue wheel.

R colorspace magick

 

HDI FORECASTER A Shiny application designed to visualize the Human Development Index, and indicator of human development within a nation, and its regional forecast trajectory into 2030. This forecast modelled off of the ARIMA algorithm.

R shiny ggplot2

Media

Science News May 2017 Water tubing accidents, table run-ins cause neandertal-like injuries by BRUCE BOWER.

 

Archaeology May 2017 Can fossile fractures be linked to Hominin behavior.

 

Inverse May 2017 Water tubing mishaps look a lot like Neanderthal injuries by SARAH SLOAT.

Other Experience

June 2017- Present

Data Analyst Universal Research Solutions, LLC

JMay 2015- June 2017

Quality Assurance Specialist Universal Research Solutions, LLC

Languages

Spoken

English (maternal)

French (proficient in speaking, reading and writing)