I am Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, with an affiliation to the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. I obtained my PhD in 2013 from the University of Montreal in Canada.

My interest is in data science, in particular machine learning and methods for “text as data.” I teach statistical methods and Canadian politics. In my free time, I study markets.


Interests: Computational Social Science; Machine Learning; Quantitative Methods.

Email: ludovic [DOT] rheault [AT] utoronto [DOT] ca


Check out Lipad: We turned unstructured data on the Canadian House of Commons into a searchable database!

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Link to the legacy website of the PolMeth 2020 conference, for which I served as organizer:

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