Beyond Spreadsheets is headed by Stephen Cranney, a data scientist based out of the Washington, DC area. He has a dual-PhD in sociology and demography from the University of Pennsylvania, and has worked in data for over 14 years.
He is also a non-Resident Fellow at the Institute for the Studies of Religion at Baylor University, teaches statistics and coding at local universities, and has published nearly 30 peer-reviewed studies. He has been interviewed about his research by The Guardian, Deseret News, The Atlantic, and Christianity Today. (See his CV here).