Christopher Small

Christopher Small

Polis
@metasoarous

Christopher Small is Founder and Chief Data Scientist of Polis, a digital democracy tool which utilizes data science to facilitate large scale deliberation in decision making processes. He also works in the Computational Biology department of Fred Hutch Cancer Research Center in Seattle, building tools for HIV researchers to analyze the response of the immune system to infections.

Clojure on the cyberpunk frontier of democracy

Polis is an open source tool which uses data science to help groups build understanding and make decisions. At the core of this tool is a machine learning engine written in Clojure. As my very first Clojure project, and the reason I got into Clojure, this codebase offers a unique perspective from which to look back on my evolving use and understanding of the language. Along the way I hope to highlight the strengths of Clojure in data-science, and to explain what cybernetics _actually_ is.