David Shor

David Shor

David Shor (born 1991) is an American data scientist and political consultant known for analyzing political polls. He currently serves as head of data science with OpenLabs, a progressive nonprofit. He is a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Previously, he worked as a senior data scientist with Civis Analytics in Chicago. Shor spent seven years at Civis, where he operated the company's web-based survey. Shor advised a number of liberal political action committees during the 2020 election cycle.Shor grew up in Miami, Florida, in a Sephardic Jewish family. He holds a mathematics degree from Florida International University. Shor was a precocious child and gifted in mathematics, starting his undergraduate degree at the age of 13 and finishing at the age of 17. Shor was awarded the Math in Moscow scholarship in fall 2009.In 2012, he joined Barack Obama's re-election campaign, working on the Chicago-based team that tracked internal and external polls and developed forecasts. Shor was 20 when he started working on the Obama campaign. The team Shor worked with developed a polling model that projected Obama's vote share within one percentage point in eight of the nine battleground states. This forecasting model was known as "The Golden Report". Prior to joining the Obama campaign, Shor worked with Nate Silver.

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