Simon Munzert
Professor of Data Science and Public Policy | Director @ Hertie School Data Science Lab | Elections, Public Opinion, Data
- School council election. Also running: the class clown. Annoying to all, impossible to ignore. Kid 1: “I’ll vote for him. He’s in my class.” Kid 2: “Nice poster! He'll get my vote.” Kid 1: “Also, he promised better school lunches.” Political scientist in me: slowly nodding, checking off the 2020s
- Reposted by Simon MunzertFlashback to last year’s Data4Good Hackathon challenges! 🏛 Municipal Innovation (with @bertelsmannst.bsky.social): > Participants tackled the Wegweiser Kommune dataset, using 400+ indicators to map out the future of German municipalities.
- Reposted by Simon MunzertThis is the week we’ve been waiting for: The Data4Good Festival 2026! We are excited to host 70+ students from across Europe at the Hertie School for a weekend of data-driven innovation and creativity in the heart of Berlin.
- Reposted by Simon MunzertThanks for referring to our research, @donmoyn.bsky.social! For those who want to understand the actions of authoritarian security organizations, here is the info kit of our forthcoming book “Making a Career in Dictatorship”. It includes short chapter summaries and more: tinyurl.com/599d6uc5
- One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
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- 2️⃣4️⃣🎁🎄 Doing something new for Advent this year: one great data journalism piece per day until Dec 24. I’m teaching a data journalism course @hertieschool.bsky.social next semester, so this is partly selfish homework. But maybe interesting for others too.
- 🎅2️⃣4️⃣❄ Weiße Weihnachten in ...? By @carlagrefehuge.bsky.social and André Pätzold interaktiv.morgenpost.de/schnee-an-we...
- Dreaming of a white Christmas? Don’t get your hopes up—at least not in Germany. Anyway, Merry Christmas, everyone! 🎄
- PSA für alle Eltern, die mit dem Gedanken spielen, die Weihnachtsbäckerei anzuzünden und die Winterkinder auf dem Balkon auszusperren: Bestes Kinder-Weihnachtsalbum? Look no further www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxFn...
- Same vibes
- Reposted by Simon MunzertWe @uni-konstanz.de are hiring a full professor in machine learning for our MSc program in Social and Economic Data Science: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/6...
- Reposted by Simon Munzert🚀 We’re hiring a Postdoc! Our group is looking for a Postdoc to join the team working on computational comm research. If you’re excited about automated content analysis, large text & social-media data, open science, this might be for you. 💡 Sounds like you or someone you know? Please share/boost!
- Reposted by Simon Munzert"Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases."
- Reposted by Simon MunzertIt's out!! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.
- So much this.
- Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
- Reposted by Simon MunzertWhat makes a startup succeed? At Hertie School’s Entrepreneurship Evening, experts Dr. Fabian Braesemann (Oxford) & Dr. Susanne Perner (TU Berlin) shared data-driven insights on founder traits, success factors & navigating innovation ecosystems. Read more👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/news/rese...
- 💫 I need your input! What’s your favorite piece of data journalism? Share it with me in the replies or via DM! Doesn't have to be English, just freely accessible.
- 2️⃣4️⃣🎁🎄 Doing something new for Advent this year: one great data journalism piece per day until Dec 24. I’m teaching a data journalism course @hertieschool.bsky.social next semester, so this is partly selfish homework. But maybe interesting for others too.
