Edgar Steiger
Team Lead Data Science
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolEdgar Steiger is a Team Lead Data Science based in Berlin with 10 years of experience turning healthcare and genomics data into actionable public health insights. He moved from a strong academic foundation—a summa cum laude PhD in bioinformatics and a Diplom in mathematics and statistics—into applied machine learning and data communication at the Zentralinstitut für die kassenärztliche Versorgung. Edgar combines statistical rigor from his postdoctoral and PhD work with practical ML deployment across public healthcare research, and he leads teams that make complex analyses accessible to stakeholders. He also has a background in teaching and outreach, from university instruction to museum education, which informs his emphasis on clear data storytelling.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat., Bioinformatik, summa cum laude, Dr. rer. nat., Bioinformatik, summa cum laude at Freie Universität BerlinDiplom-Mathematiker, Mathematik und Statistik, 1.8, Diplom-Mathematiker, Mathematik und Statistik, 1.8 at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinAbitur, Mathematik, 1.0, Abitur, Mathematik, 1.0 at Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Oberschule (Gymnasium), Berlin
German, English, French
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Github Skills (50)
science10
data-science9
row9
machine-learning9
drei8
der8
ggplot8
word2vec7
topic-modeling7
scheme7
des7
ber7
fasttext7
nlp6
azure6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zidatalab/zicolors
Sep 2020 - May 2023
ggplot theme for Zi plots, publication ready, nice color scheme
Contributions:4 PRs, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
schemecolor-schemeggplotplots
zidatalab/covid19dashboard
May 2020 - Feb 2023
Overview of COVID-19 projections and results from the Zi Data Science Lab.
Contributions:3343 commits, 8 PRs, 3170 pushes in 2 years 9 months
sciencedata-sciencedata-science-labmachine-learninglab
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