Timothy Jurka is a Polish-American computer scientist and political scientist.
Background Jurka is best known for developing the artificial intelligence that ranks the LinkedIn news feed.LinkedIn "A Look Behind the AI that Powers LinkedIn’s Feed"Axios "LinkedIn goes niche" Previously, Jurka developed machine learning algorithms for news recommendations in the Pulse news reading application, which was acquired by LinkedIn in 2013.TechCrunch "LinkedIn Acquires Pulse For $90M In Stock And Cash"
As a Ph.D. student at UC Davis, Jurka collaborated on numerous projects in political science spanning media framing,University of Chicago Press "Making the News: Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting"Washington Monthly "College Students on the Debate: Agreeing with Obama, Agreeing that Romney Won" civic engagement,Social Science Research Network "Colleague Crowdsourcing: A Method for Incentivizing National Student Engagement and Large-N Data Collection" and tobacco and immunization policy.State Politics and Policy Conference "Agendas and Alternatives in the American States: Determinants of State Legislative Attention to Tobacco and Immunizations" Additionally, he wrote text classification software, including RTextTools and MaxEnt for the R statistical programming language.Google Scholar "Timothy P. Jurka"The R Journal "RTextTools: A Supervised Learning Package for Text Classification"The R Journal "maxent: An R Package for Low-memory Multinomial Logistic Regression with Support for Semi-automated Text Classification"DataScience+ "Sentiment analysis with machine learning in R"
He is the son of computational biologist Jerzy Jurka.
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