Since 2015 I developed a portfolio of skills related to data analysis that I continously improve and expand. I offer consulting and solutions in the following areas:
The basis of informed decisions and good research is collecting good and reliable data. I am expertly trained in survey methodology, approaching target populations, and experimental research. I can assist in identifying what it is exactly what you want to know, where to get the data from, and how to collect it.
Once data is collected, it needs to be cleaned, put into a format that can be read by statistical software, and stored securely. My skillset incoporates this and the treatment of missing data and invalid responses.
The core of my work centers around analysing the collected data and applying state-of-the-art statistical methods appropriate to the questions and data at hand to it. I use these methods on the available data to receive answers to open questions.
Although technically part of Data Analysis, Machine Learning has made a name of its own and describes techniques where algorithms infer patterns from the data and use this to answer open questions and predict patterns in the future.
A significant part of data analysis is to make sense of numbers and to visualise them in an understandable and clear manner. Good visualisations of the patterns uncovered in Data Analysis, and Machine Learning is integral to communications with other experts or the wider public.
I have presented my research to the academic and non-academic public on many occasions. I learned to think of a story to tell with the data and how to deliver an effective presentation.
R (tidyverse, igraph, RSiena); Stata; Python (numpy, Pandas, NetworkX); Git/Github; Slurm workload manager; HTML/CSS; SQL; SPSS
MS Office, LaTeX, Markdown, Beamer.
Social network analysis, machine learning, data visualisation, experiments, game theory, survey methodology
German (native), English (full professional proficiency), Dutch (professional working proficiency), French (limited working proficiency), Spanish (elementary proficiency)