Jordan Segall, Social Explorer's Chief Data Developer, has been with the project since 2005. His primary responsibilities are extensive, and generally divided between map and data processing with ArcGIS, SAS, and other software applications, and administrative development for Social Explorer and Queens College. Recently, he wrote, with Andrew Beveridge, a National Science Foundation grant for the development of secondary and post-secondary social science curricula using Social Explorer technologies.

Segall also teaches Sociology 381W at Queens College, "Major Themes in American Labor Sociology". He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2005 with a B.A. with honors in history and an M.A. in social science. His own research concerns American urban and labor history in the West and Midwest, and especially the development of white-collar guild unionism in Los Angeles' entertainment sector. Though currently a resident of Manhattan's Upper West Side, he was born in Los Angeles, CA.