Kimmo Vehkalahti
Director Of Master's Programme In Contemporary Societies (COS) at University of Helsinki
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolKimmo Vehkalahti is a senior social data scientist and academic leader with over 25 years at the University of Helsinki, currently directing the international Master's Programme in Contemporary Societies and teaching applied statistics at the Centre for Social Data Science. He co-authored an international textbook on applied multivariate analysis and wrote a Finnish textbook on measurement and survey methods, blending deep methodological expertise with practical statistical computing and visualization skills. Creator and creative director of Finland’s first social statistics + data science MOOCs, he champions open data science education and reproducible workflows (RStudio). A Founding Fellow of the Teachers’ Academy, he combines research, curriculum design, and public-facing teaching while maintaining an unusual personal balance—competing priorities between trail running and tenor singing.
9 years of coding experience
Sibelius-lukioValtiotieteiden tohtori (VTT), lisensiaatti (VTL), maisteri (VTM), Tilastotiede, Valtiotieteiden tohtori (VTT), lisensiaatti (VTL), maisteri (VTM), Tilastotiede at Helsingin yliopisto
suomi, English, Swedish
Github Skills (1)
php1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
KimmoVehkalahti/IODS-project
Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
Template for the IODS course
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 7 months
KimmoVehkalahti/MABS
Nov 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:32 commits, 30 pushes in 4 years
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