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Chief Data Scientist

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Economist, data scientist, and advanced analytics specialist with cross-industry experience in financial services, life sciences, healthcare, retail, web analytics, and online gaming. I work with clients on the full cycle of the analytics process: translating a business problems into data-driven analytic approaches, implementing the appropriate analysis and translating the results back into actionable recommendations. I apply methodologies from a statistics, econometrics, machine learning, semantic analysis and NLP, and architect solutions to implement them drawing on all the latest technology buzzwords. An economist by training, with a unique experience as one of the first chief economists of a virtual world. Served as a central banker and a finance minister of a virtual economy with several millions of participants, stopped rampant inflation, balanced the gameplay while maintaining long term real world revenue sources. Published in both peer reviewed academic journals and in 'softer' magazines, on a variety of topics from the effects of online news on political polarization to the relationship between education and verbal ability, from survey methodology to jet particulation.