Craig A. Hill was a research institute executive and a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The designation of ASA Fellow has been a sign ...

. His research focuses on

big data Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data processing, data-processing application software, software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with ...

and the application of new technologies to social science methods.

Education and career

He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the

University of New Orleans The University of New Orleans (UNO) is a Public university, public research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. First opened in 1958 as Louisiana State University in New Orleans, it is the largest public university and one of t ...

and has published and presented more than 50 papers, ranging from hospital ranking methodology, survey interviewer fraud, and new technology and data sources for social science research. He has published two books: ''Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research'' and ''Big Data Meets Survey Science: A Collection of Innovative Methods''. Until July 2024, he was Senior Vice President at

RTI International Research Triangle Institute, operating as RTI International, is a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, USA. RTI provides research and technical services. It was founded in 1958 with $500,000 in fu ...

for more than 20 years. Prior to RTI, he was a vice president at

NORC at the University of Chicago NORC at the University of Chicago, previously the National Opinion Research Center, is an independent social research organization in the United States. Established in 1941, its corporate headquarters is located in downtown Chicago, with office ...

Recognition

In 2019, he was elected as a Fellow of the

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. In 2021, he received the Warren J. Mitofsky Innovators Award from the

American Association for Public Opinion Research The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) is a professional organization of more than 2,000 public opinion and survey research professionals in the United States and from around the world, with members from academia, media, gover ...

for founding the Big Data Meets Survey Science (BigSurv) initiative.

References

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