Omer Kara
Software Developer at Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi
Eskisehir, Eskişehir, Turkey
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Top SchoolOmer Kara is a software developer and econometrician with 10 years of experience blending academic rigor and applied data science across academia, consultancy, and industry. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from NC State and teaches extensive econometrics and time series courses while building reproducible research pipelines and open teaching materials. In industry he develops production Shiny platforms and ETL/EDA workflows at CHS Inc., and has contributed data-driven analyses to The World Bank. His technical toolkit spans R, Python, SAS, SQL, MATLAB, GAUSS, GIS tools and Azure DevOps, with practical strengths in econometrics, ML, web scraping and interactive dashboards. Notably, he pairs formal econometric modeling with production-ready Shiny apps, turning complex quantitative research into usable decision tools. Based in Eskişehir, Turkey, he leverages his academic publications and certified data science credentials to consult on policy and commercial analytics.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics, 3.8, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics, 3.8 at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, 3.6, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, 3.6 at Bahcesehir University
Turkish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
data-science8
shiny-apps7
ml-agents6
unity-game-engine6
artificial-intelligence6
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning6
shiny5
r4
shinydashboard4
dashboard2
econometrics1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
omerkara/okara
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
omerkara/courses
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Course materials for the Data Science Specialization: https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push in 1 day
data-science
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