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Barton Poulson

Faculty Member

Professor Barton Poulson

Biography

PhD in social and personality psychology, teaches statistics in person and online, at UVU since 2002.

Education

Undergraduate Certificate, University of Utah, 2013

Major: Arts Technology

PhD, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 1999

Major: Social-Personality Psychology

Master of Philosophy, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 1998

Major: Social-Personality Psychology

MA, Hunter College, The City University of New York, 1996

Major: Psychology

BA, Brigham Young University, 1991

Major: Psychology

Teaching

PSY 3110

Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Spring 2025

PSY 3110

Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Spring 2025

PSY 3110

Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Spring 2025

Presentations

Nackos, Tanner D., Anderson, David J., Nuesmeyer, Kristen C., Poulson, Barton , Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Psychology Association, "Data Dives as Engaged Research and Learning_ A Retrospective and Prospective Report.", Rocky Mountain Psychology Association, Salt Lake City, UT. (April, 2014)
Bond, Jasen , Dean, Angela , Morgan, Susan , White, Matty , Sands, Allison , Brinkerhoff, Collin , Poulson, Barton , Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Psychology Association, "Turning on the firehose_ Mining Twitter for psychological data.", Rocky Mountain Psychology Association, Salt Lake City, UT. (April, 2014)
Nackos, Tanner D., Anderson, David J., Poulson, Barton , Teaching and Engagement (SoTE) Conference, "The UVU Data Lab and the Utah Data Dive_ Applied data science for the social sciences.", Annual Scholarship of Teaching and Engagement (SoTE) Conference , Utah Valley University, Orem, UT. (March, 2014)
Anderson, David J., Nackos, Tanner D., Poulson, Barton , Annual Meeting of the Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, "Bringing data science to the social sciences_ The UVU Data Lab.", Utah Conference on Undergraduate Research, Provo, UT. (February, 2014)
Poulson, Barton , UVU Research Day, "A gentle introduction to data science_ The Utah Data Dive.", Utah Valley University, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT. (October, 2013)
Poulson, Barton , Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Psychology Association, "Causality without casualties_ The overworked and underpaid researcher’s guide to quasi-experimental methods for causal inference. ", Rocky Mountain Psychology Association, Salt Lake City, UT. (April, 2011)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Poulson, Barton , (2024) "The Data Science of Economics, Banking, and Finance" . Carpinteria, CA: LinkedIn Learning. https://www.linkedin.com/learning/the-data-science-of-economics-banking-and-finance
Poulson, Barton , (2024) "Complete Guide to R_ Wrangling, Visualizing, and Modeling Data" . Carpinteria, CA: LinkedIn Learning. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:lyndaCourse:3821080
Poulson, Barton , (2024) "Data Literacy_ Exploring and Describing Data" . Carpinteria, CA: LinkedIn Learning. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:lyndaCourse:2899426
Poulson, Barton , (2024) "SPSS Statistics Essential Training" . Carpinteria, CA: LinkedIn Learning. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:lyndaCourse:4490241
Poulson, Barton , (2023) "AI時代のビッグデータ (Japanese translation of Big Data in the Age of AI)" . Carpinteria, CA: LinkedIn Learning. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:lyndaCourse:4468004
Poulson, Barton , (2023) "データサイエンスの基礎：基本 (Japanese translation of Data Science Foundations_ Fundamentals)" . Carpinteria, CA: LinkedIn Learning. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:lyndaCourse:2480374

Awards

TRIO Instructor of the Year

Utah Valley University TRIO Programs - April 11, 2016

UVU's TRIO program, which are part of the Federal TRIO programs, provide services for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Grants for engaged learning for The Utah Data Dive

Utah Valley University

$5000

Engaged Learning the Liberal Arts

Utah Valley University

Preparation for Engaged analytics_ Preparing for the Utah Data Dive $1925

Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Scholarship

Utah Valley University

$8000

Nominated for Faculty Excellence Award

Utah Valley University

Best Paper in the Arts

Utah Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters - March, 2008

Best Paper in the Arts_ Ortega, N. & Poulson, B. (2008, March). "Dance made me a genius! Reflections on participation in high school dance." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Utah Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. Salt Lake City, UT