Contact: radovan.kavicky@gapdata.org & +421 949 716 214 (+send me your number first so that I know who calls)• Principal Data Scientist & President at GapData Institute• AI Researcher/PhD. Candidate & Macroeconomist/MSc. by academic background and Consultant & Data Scientist by professional background (12+ years of consulting for clients from public & private sector) • Data Science Polyglot (R, Python, Julia ++more) & Data Science Veteran (12+ years in this area/Data Science consulting & education)• Specialities/Main area (hard skills): xAI (Explainable AI/ML), Econometrics, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Bayesian Statistics, Deep Learning (AI/ML/DL), Ethics & Transparency in AI/ML, Economic Policy (monetary & fiscal), Data Vis, Quant. Analyses• Language skills: Native Slovak & Czech; Fluent English & German; Basic Russian• IT & Data Science skills: (advanced level) R (dplyr +tidyverse, EconR, ggplot2, data.table, Shiny, mgcv, caret, RMd, forecast, AER), Python (pandas, NumPy, LIME, SHAP, matplotlib, Bokeh, QuantEcon, Jupyter Lab, StatsModels, scikit-learn, plotly, PyMC3), Julia, Tableau, MATLAB, Alteryx, SAS, Stata, Git (intermediate level) ML/DL (Keras + TensorFlow), Stan, MongoDB, MySQL, D3.js, Docker • Member of British Computer Society (Member, #BCS), Slovak Economic Association (SEA), IEEE Computer Society (Member, #IEEE), Slovak.AI (#SlovakAI), CLAIRE, European AI Alliance & TAILOR network, AAAI, EurAI, AI4SK, ELLIS• Evangelist of Open Data, Open Budget Initiative & Open Government Partnership• Founder of PyData Slovakia/Bratislava (#PyDataSK #PyDataBA), R <- Slovakia (#RSlovakia), Julia Users Group Slovakia (#JUGSlovakia) & SK/CZ Tableau User Group (#skczTUG)• Data Science Instructor @ DataCamp, BaseCamp.ai, Skillmea, GapData• International Speaker: @Global AI Show (Dubai, 2024, Keynote), @WeAreDevelopers (Berlin, 2023), @TAILOR (Brussels, 2023), @CODECON (Bratislava, 2023), @DATAcated (New York, 2022), @PyData (Hamburg, 2022), @ML Prague (2023, 2022), @Data Science Summit (Warsaw, 2021), @PyData (Hong Kong, 2021), @ODSC Europe (London, 2021), @WeAreDevelopers (WeAreDevsLIVE, 2021), @Data Science Conference (DSG 5.0, 2019), H2O.ai (Prague, 2019), @PyCon LT (PyData track, Vilnius, 2019), @VDSG (Linz, 2019), @TechSummit (Bratislava, 2017 & 2019), @OpenCamp (Bratislava, 2019) @PyData (Berlin, 2017)• Member of the global Tableau #DataLeader network (2017)• U.S. Department of State’s & the Atlantic Council GeoTech Center’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Connect program (2024)
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