Christopher J. Zimmerman is a Senior Analytical Consultant at Google, a doctoral researcher at the Department of Digitalization and an external lecturer at the department of Management, Society and Communication. His main research interests combine information visualization, language analysis and computational social science. Chris comes from a background as an information designer, consultant and analyst. He has a bachelor’s degree in International Business and a masters degree in Information Systems (cand.merc.it) with focuses on social media and urban informatics. Areas of subsequent PhD research include data visualization, computational linguistics and emotional mapping. Within the domain of Design Science, Chris has developed several dashboard artifacts and tool prototypes, including the publicly available emotional detection engine, www.emotionvis.com. Chris has also served as student representative on the PhD school board at CBS and the intellectual property committee during has bachelor’s. His netnographic research and dashboard developments have been cited by the New Yorker, textbooks and as the Danish news and trade journals (see below).

As a practitioner, Chris works with the Google engagement team to help clients learn more about their communities, performance and the world around them (online). Prior to current careers in academia and at Google, Chris had worked in the institutional marketing domain of an investment bank in New York, before going on to managerial consulting in Paris. In Denmark, Chris previously worked at a digital marketing agency, building campaign and product launch dashboards for global Danish clients.

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