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"We help organizations and businesses realize their potential." Patrick Fischer, M.Sc. - Founder & Data Scientist
The most important facts at a glance
- Data Scientists & Management Consultants with focus on process & workflow optimization, automation and efficiency improvement using algorithms
- Studied demography (M.Sc.) and social sciences (B.A., demography, statistics, economics and sociology) at the University of Rostock, subsidiary subjects: political science and communication & media research
- Guest student: Algorithms, complexity and cryptography, introduction to business administration, basics of marketing
- Continuing education: Business administration (BWL), project management, relational databases/SQL & marketing (certificate course)
- Internship: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPI), Rostock/Germany
- Work experience, etc.: Analyst, Ramboll Management Consulting, Berlin (political consulting for federal & state ministries and authorities)
Services
Statistics & data analysis:
- Data analysis and statistical evaluations
- Quantitative method alignment (surveys, inventory data, process data etc.)
- Uni-, bi- & multivariate analytical methods
- U.a. linear, logistic & Cox regressions, generalized linear models (GLM), generalized estimating equations (GEE), factor analysis, logit/robit models
- Cross-sectional and panel/longitudinal studies
- model calculations & cost estimates
- Research Services & Desk Research
- preparation of dossiers, studies and presentations
Data collection & databases:
- Study and questionnaire/survey design & programming
- SQL / NoSQL databases (mySQL, MariaDB)
- Data mining
- Big Data
- Algorithms / Machine Learning / Text Mining
IT & web programming:
- Web development (including PHP, JavaScript, html, css, json), Typo3 / various CMS
- Market research, competition/competition tracking & monitoring
- Database- and algorithm-supported research
- Social Media Analysis / Monitoring
- data visualization, creation of dashboards & business analytics
Consultation / Consulting:
- Consulting on digitization of business processes, market research & observation
- Consultation on demographic issues (population development & prognosis, fertility/birth rate, mortality/death rate / life expectancy, care dependency & dementia, migration/integration/flight)
- Consulting on databases, data collection and data mining
Tools
- STATA 16, Python, R, R/Studio, mySQL, Apache Hadoop, Spark, Tableau, several own tools
Other services & expertise
- (Address) Data Management / Data cleansing / Normalization / Duplicate matching / Automated check for up-to-dateness of data / Merging of data / Data enrichment / Verification of email addresses & URLs / Triangulation / Automated matching of multiple records
- Systematic & automated research and market research, e.g. competition analysis / tracking / monitoring, automated identification of competitors, new competitors, e.g. for mergers & acquisitions (M&A) processes
- Automated analysis of online job postings and labour market research (e.g. e.g. tracking of a regionally differentiated shortage of skilled workers in sector X, labour demand over time, requirement profiles and demanded skills/competences by keywords (e.g. educational attainment, work experience, software/EDP skills, driving licence, seniority etc.))
- Search engine automation: Automated search by keyword & location: Find all important companies or competitors by industry/keyword quickly & easily at the push of a button. Read out email addresses, create description and ranking. Results can be called up quickly and easily via the browser management interface, including search, sort, filter and management functions, lists etc.
- Trend tracking (in news sources & coverage, social media, product/product groups in online shops)
- Media monitoring and statistical evaluation (news article changes over time, journalists on several media, etc.)
- Startup-Monitoring / Monitoring of all start-ups or new registrations in Germany according to location, topic, industry, keyword, legal form etc.
- Exploratory data analysis
Own reference projects / online portals:
Completed lectures & seminars
Bachelor's degree:
- Methods and techniques of empirical social research
- Quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis
- Introduction to working with SPSS (syntax)
- Multivariate analysis methods
- Demography I: Introduction to demography
- Demography II: Family demography
- Demography III: Introduction to population dynamics
- Demography IV: Advanced population dynamics
- Mathematics & calculus
- Statistics I & II
- Data analysis I & II
- Stochastics
- Fundamentals of economics
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
- Empirical economic research
- Econometrics
- Fundamentals of political science (introduction to political theory and the history of ideas as well as introduction to comparative government)
- Media & Communication Sciences (Communication Sciences- Basics as well as Society and Communication)
- Sociology I: Introduction to basic concepts of sociology
- Sociology II: Introduction to sociological theory
- Sociology III: Social structures and social sub-areas
- Sociology IV: Sociological theories
- Sociology V: History of sociological theories
- Research internship I & II (University of Rostock, Germany): Lifestyle, Quality of Life & Health of Young Adults in Germany
Master's degree:
- Demographic and socio-economic data sources (including SOEP, ALLBUS, SHARE, microcensus, EU-SILC, HMD, Pairfam, NHIS)
- Challenges of demographic change
- Recent developments in demographic research
- Regression analysis with STATA (syntax)
- Mortality analysis
- Lifetime analysis / Survival Analysis with R
- Migration and forecasting
- Measurement and demographic analysis of changes in life forms
- Social analysis (diagnoses): socio-economic future scenarios and what became of them
- Demographic Research Internship (MPI): Gender differences in health
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