Luddy School of
Informatics, Computing, and Engineering

Allen Riddell

Assistant Professor of Information Science

Education

• M.S. in Statistics at Duke University, 2013
• Ph.D. in Program in Literature at Duke University, 2013

Biography

Allen Riddell is an Assistant Professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. His research explores applications of modern statistical methods in the humanities and allied social sciences. His research interests include sociology of literature, publishing history, comparative media studies, library digitization, and text mining. Prior to coming to Indiana University, Riddell was a Neukom Fellow at the Neukom Institute for Computational Sciences and the Leslie Center for the Humanities at Dartmouth College.

Research Areas

• Data Analytics
• Digital Humanities
• Information and Library Science
• Data Science
• Ethics and Values in Digital Society
• Data Mining
• Natural Language Processing
• Digital Libraries and Digital Humanities
• Knowledge Organization, Cultural Informatics, and Natural Informatics
• Machine Learning
• Statistical analysis
• Intellectual Freedom and information/data ethics
• Media Studies
• Social Media