Jeroen Minderman
Senior Data Scientist
Alloa, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJeroen Minderman is a Senior Data Scientist with over 15 years of cross-disciplinary experience translating ecological research and academic modelling into pragmatic, reproducible data science for government and NGOs. He combines deep domain expertise in behavioural ecology and socio-ecological modelling with hands-on proficiency in open-source tools (R, Python) to build sustainable in-house analytics capability and robust version-controlled pipelines. At the Office for National Statistics he has lectured and led projects that bridge technical delivery and stakeholder needs, and he continues to support international statistical capacity-building across Africa and the Middle East. Known for a pragmatic, cost-effective approach to reproducibility and maintenance, he brings academic rigour from a PhD in behavioural ecology to applied problems in international development and public-good statistics. Based in Alloa, Scotland, he now applies his blend of research and production experience to senior data science roles in both public and private sectors.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Behavioural Ecology, PhD Behavioural Ecology at Newcastle UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Biology and Ecology, Master of Science (MSc) Biology and Ecology at University of Groningen
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (19)
text-analysis9
rap9
tf-idf9
analytical8
soc8
classification7
python6
economics6
algorithm6
pipeline5
geopandas3
statistics3
r-programming2
spatial2
geography2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
datasciencecampus/occupationcoder-international
Jun 2024 - Nov 2025
A fork of the `occupationcoder` package: a tool to assign standard occupational classification codes (e.g ISCO) to job descriptions.
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 8 PRs in 1 year 5 months
classification
jeroenminderman/fork-it-up
May 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:8 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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