His research interests center on the quantitative analysis of protest and social movements. His work has been published in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Social Problems, and the Annual Review of Sociology. The data in many of his publications has been either scraped from the web, downloaded using APIs, or otherwise involved collected and analyzing texts. He is the author of a well-used publicly available script for converting Lexis-Nexis article downloads into a CSV file. For several years, he has run a graduate workshop on computational social science and digital data collection, has given external workshops on the topic, and has many several tutorials available online. He is also the editor of the social movements journal Mobilization.