Summary
Marcin Kosiński is a founder and community-focused data scientist with a decade of experience bridging statistical rigor and practical ML applications. With a master's in Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis, he specializes in large-scale real-time learning, personalized recommendations, and survival analysis, and currently works on recommender systems at ProData Consult. He founded Why R?, organizing a global conference, webinars, meetups, and hackathons to grow the R ecosystem across Europe. Previously he led quantitative marketing analyses and global surveys at Gradient Metrics, and helped sustain pan-European data talks through X-Europe Webinars during the COVID disruption. Based in Warsaw, he combines hands-on R expertise with community building—often surfacing new practitioners and ideas that feed into applied recommendation and marketing analytics.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer