Andrew Therriault
Facebook Manager, Infrastructure Data Science
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Andrew Therriault has spent the past decade building and leading data science programs for organizations across the political, nonprofit, government, and technology sectors. He founded the Democratic National Committee’s data science team in 2014 and was appointed the City of Boston’s first Chief Data Officer in 2016. Therriault is a frequent speaker on civic technology and data science and the author of Data and Democracy: How Political Data Science is Shaping the 2016 Elections (O’Reilly Media), and received his doctorate in political science from New York University in 2011. He currently resides in Boston and leads a data science team at Facebook working to optimize their technology infrastructure.