Services

• 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)

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

• STATA 16, Python, R, R/Studio, mySQL, Apache Hadoop, Spark, Tableau, several own tools

• (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:
• WatchPlayStream.com (international film streaming search engine & film database with about 350,000 films & series), URL: {https://www.watchplaystream.com/
• travelario.com (interactive online travel guides), URL: {https://www.travelario.com/
• Fischer | Data Science / patrick-fischer.com (including global PR & media database, B2B acquisition database & company directory, data science & IT services), URL: https://www.patrick-fischer.com/

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

• Network research

• 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

• Master-Thesis: Mental well-being in advanced age. A study based on SHARE data (research field epidemiology), URL: http://www.share-project.org/