Veton Kurtsmajlaj

Data Scientist

Passionate analyst and researcher with over 7 years of experience in data analytics, market research, and statistics. I've had the opportunity to showcase skill, leadership and knowledge in several individual and group projects. In my recent positions I led professional research teams in market research and analytics projects of strategic importance to private and public shareholders.

I have Master's Degree in Business Analytics, with 'Research distinction track' from the Norwegian School of Economics and a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Tirana.

• Proficient use of R – programming and its core analytics packages: tidyverse, tidyquant, tidymodels.
• Proficient use of Microsoft Excel (formulas, macros, power query, power pivot, automation)
• Proficient use of data visitation and automation tools: Power BI (DAX), RShiny, MS Excel (Power Query)
• Advanced knowledge of SQL and query integration with R – programming environment (Packages DBI and RSQLite)
• Advanced knowledge of data handling concepts including collection, cleaning, wrangling, joining, and structure normalization
• Hands-on experience with the most used machine learning and statistical techniques: Linear regression, logistic regression, decision trees, bagging & boosting, time series modelling, t – tests, Chi-sq test, ANOVA and more.
• Hands-on experience with the most used policy research designs: Difference – in – difference, panel data (FE & RE), Instrumental variables, discontinuity design and more.