Robert Birkelbach
Statistiker
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolRobert Birkelbach is a statistician and sociologist with 11 years of experience applying quantitative methods to educational sociology, social network analysis and computational social science. He teaches a master's-level course in computational social sciences at the University of Cologne while writing his dissertation and combines academic research with applied roles in institutions such as DZHW and AUC. He has hands-on data-science experience from industry work analyzing web-behavior, surveys and experiments, and contributes to open-source tooling—having integrated ESS support into a popular Emacs starter kit to improve reproducible data workflows for scientists. Based in Düsseldorf, he brings a pragmatic mix of pedagogy, research rigor and software-driven reproducibility to interdisciplinary projects.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Soziologie, Soziologie at Universität zu Köln
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
emacs10
r10
elisp9
ispell6
aspell6
hunspell6
python6
debian-stretch6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jkitchin/scimax
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
An emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 16 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Robert's primary contribution was integrating ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) support and configuration into the Emacs starter kit. They added and configured ESS packages to enable features for R, and other data science tools. This included defining modes and settings for various file types related to data science, and fixing minor issues. The changes suggest a focus on enhancing the Emacs environment for scientific computing and data analysis.
emacsstarterkitscientistsengineers
dzhw/phd2014-metadata
Aug 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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