Gerard 'Chuck' Rainville
Social and Data Scientist

I am a senior research methodologist working in applied settings. Throughout my career I have supported the production of data-intensive insights for organizational decision-making as well as developing research projects and analyzing data for externally-released official reports, media content,  conference presentations, and peer-reviewed journal publications.

Settings: membership organizations (AARP, National District Attorneys Association), government, consultants, and GSEs (DOJ, Education Statistics  Services Institute, and Freddie Mac), and academic (American University).

My background is in the behavioral sciences but all disciplines have their interesting questions. I have publications in fields as varied as gerontology, airport management, criminology, bioethics, sexology, religion, and political science. I am particularly interested in short-form scales and behavior change measures.

Competencies: research design, data science, measures, social science, survey methods, quantitative analysis, text, theory testing, scale development, forecasting

I am also fond of birds. Cardinals mostly….