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📊 I am a freelance data professional, typically acting the role of data scientist.

⚡ My main learning focus is to expand my skill set in data storytelling, football analytics, MLOps, and NLP.

✍️ I sometimes write about the above and more on Medium and my blog.

🏠 Lives in Brussels, but likes the occasional travel.

🎸 Spotify's 2021 to 2023 Wrapped lists disclosed Interpol, New Order, The Cure, The National, Nicolas Jaar, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes and John Frusciante as the music I seem to be most into. Will 2024 bring something different?

⚽ Enjoys playing and/or watching sports, especially (indoor) football, running, tennis, cycling, and martial arts.

🎓 In 2020, I obtained a joint PhD in Finance & Business Economics from the Université de Neuchâtel and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

📝 My research was about sentiment analysis of textual data and the usefulness of it in time series modeling. These are the published papers I have worked on:

• Econometrics meets sentiment: An overview of methodology and applications

• The R package sentometrics to compute, aggregate and predict with textual sentiment

• Daily news sentiment and monthly surveys: A mixed-frequency dynamic factor model for nowcasting consumer confidence

• Semi-supervised text mining for monitoring the news about the ESG performance of companies

• The Economic Policy Uncertainty index for Flanders, Wallonia and Belgium