Dr. Andreas Graefe is a research fellow at LMU Munich, Germany and at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism. He also holds the Professorship in Customer Relationship Management at Macromedia University. Andreas' research is quantitative-empirical, interdisciplinary and problem-oriented. He does not limit himself to a particular domain or method but looks across many domains and use different methods to address important problems. In the area of election studies, he has done extensive validation work on the benefits of combining forecasts, vote expectation surveys and index models. He also published the Guide to Automated Journalism. For more information visit www.andreas-graefe.org.