About

I am a Tenure-Track Professor of Data Science at the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies of the University of Giessen. Before joining the University of Giessen, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in machine learning at the University of Oxford, where I remain affiliated as an Associate Member at the Oxford-Man Institute. Prior to that, I headed my own research group at the University of Freiburg, where I also obtained my Ph.D. in Information Systems. My research focuses on data science methods and computational techniques for understanding and predicting human decision-making in the digital age. Current research projects apply machine learning and natural language processing to a broad selection of topics, including (1) social networks, (2) recommender systems, and (3) financial markets. Apart from academic research, I am a passionate programmer and have developed multiple widely used R packages (­> 100.000 downloads via CRAN) for text mining and machine learning.

 

New Teaching Materials

Slide Deck: Exploratory Text Analysis in R

This slide deck presents an introduction to explanatory text analysis in R. The main learning goals are:

  • Exploratory text analysis: Learn how to gain an initial understanding of text data
  • Tidy text analysis: Learn how to perform text analysis in a “tidy” way using tidytext
  • Corpus analyis: Understand how to explore text corpora and perform tf-idf document weighting in R

The slides can be downloaded here.

 

New Teaching Materials

Slide Deck: Tidy Data Manipulation in R

This slide deck presents an introduction to tidy data manipulation in R. The main learning goals are:

  • Tidy data manipulation: Learn how to manipulate data using the “dplyr” R-package
  • Pipe operator: Learn how increase code readability using pipes
  • Joins: Learn how to efficiently join separate datasets in R

The slides can be downloaded here.