Hello, My name is Rebecca Abbott and I am a PhD candidate in the Sociology department of the University of Illinois at Chicago. I'm completing my dissertation using machine learning methods (in R) to predict mass atrocities. I currently teach the graduate statistics lab, helping students model their own projects using Stata. My strongest skills are model building, statistics and data analysis. My areas of research are primarily focused on economic policy, inequality, racial attitudes and group violence. Current research projects include: -Time series analysis on racial attitudes of Black, White and Hispanic Americans controlling for the individual’s economic hardship during the 2007 recession. The purpose of this project is to understand how economic conditions affect racial attitudes. This was done in Stata using multiple years of the General Social Survey paired with data from the US Census Bureau. -Using logistic regression and Hierarchical Linear Modeling to predict voting behavior in the 2016 election using county history of racialized voting and lynching violence. The data came from historical records of lynching, U.S. census data, and county cluster data created by Dr. Amy Bailey of U.I.C. -Fuzzy set-Qualitative Comparative Analysis on national level datasets measuring economic variables to find necessary and sufficient conditions for mass atrocities. The data was from multiple sources (U.N., World Bank, PITF) stored as rich text files and converted to spreadsheet stored on GitHub from multiple data sources. -Cluster analysis and random forests to predict likelihood of mass atrocities using economic and social policy measures. Data is from multiple data sources (World Bank, CIA, UN, WHO, WTO) data is in text format and stored on GitHub. Much of this work has been done for academic publishing but I am currently trying to shift gears toward producing work for a public audience. My goal here is to get more experience and do good work.