Radovan Kavicky

Bratislava, Slovakia

Bio

• Principal Data Scientist & President at GapData Institute, where he harness the power of data & wisdom of economics for public good.
• Macroeconomist by education/academic background and Consultant & Data Scientist by professional background (9+ years of experience in consulting for clients from public & private sector) with strong mathematical & analytical skills able to deliver top-level research and analytical work.
• Specialties/Main area of expertise (hard skills): econometrics, data science, economic policy (monetary&fiscal), quantitative analyses, financial modeling, data visualization (f.e. Python, R, Tableau)
• Member of Slovak Economic Association (SEA), Evangelist of Open Data, Open Budget Initiative & Open Government Partnership
• Founder of PyData Bratislava, R <- Slovakia & SK/CZ Tableau User Group (skczTUG)
• Instructor @DataCamp, Speaker @PyData (Berlin, 2017), @TechSummit (Bratislava, 2017) & Member of the global Tableau #DataLeader network (2017)

Everyone is welcome to reach out and if it somehow involves or combines Data Science, Economics, Finance, Public Policy and Data Visualization… don’t hesitate a minute, would be glad to help. From MATLAB, SAS & Stata switched to Python, R & Tableau.
Right now learning mostly Julia & Stan.

Also we are always on the lookout for speakers for our monthly meetups & conferences in Bratislava, Slovakia.
Please get in touch if you are interested in giving a talk. #DataScience #Python #R #Julia #Stan
Contact: radovan.kavicky@gapdata.org
More info about our previous speakers & meetups on GitHub here: https://github.com/GapData/PyDataBratislava

PyData Berlin 2017, Data Science & Data Visualization in Python. How to harness power of Python for social good? (via) PyData/NumFocus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5578BhU4sE&list=PLGVZCDnMOq0p55DKM5a0BOR6vwvKcAB56&index=57