Simon Ress

Simon Ress

Data Scientist & AI Engineer

Noweda e.G.

Biography

I am a passionate data science enthusiast with very good knowledge of a wide range of experience in R and Python implementations and libraries. I am currently employed at Noweda e.G. (Essen) as an AI Engineer and Data Scientist. My range of activities includes the areas of data acquisition via web scraping, processing, structuring and visualization of this data, as well as their evaluation with methods of modern causal analysis or ML algorithms. In order to realize these projects, I regularly take on the conception and leadership of teams.

Furthermore, I’m working on my PhD thesis at the chairs of Comparative Politics & Social Science Data Analysis, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. My main research interests are labour market policies and their effects on individual health and interest groups and lobbyism. I have published articles on interest groups and prevention policies.

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Interests

  • AI Research & Engineering
  • Modern Causal Analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • R & Python
  • Social Policy
  • Labour Market
  • Social Epidemiology

Education

  • M.A. in Methods of Social Research, 2019

    Ruhr-Universität Bochum

  • B.A. in Social Science, 2016

    Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Skills

R

5 years

Python

2 years

Statistics / ML

7 years

Modern Causal Analysis

4 years

Data Visualization

5 years

Automated Reporting

4 years

Experience

  • AI Engineer & Data Scientist

    Noweda e.G.

    Apr 2023 – Present Essen

    Responsibilities include:

    • AI Engineering

  • Data Scientist

    MT GmbH

    Jan 2023 – Mar 2023 Ratingen

    Responsibilities include:

    • Analysing / Building Machine Learning Models
    • Conceptual Development / Project Management
    • Developing IT-Architecture
    • Optimizing Code / Performance Improvements
    • Deploying Web Apps

  • Junior Data Scientist

    MT GmbH

    Feb 2022 – Dec 2022 Ratingen

    Responsibilities include:

    • Analysing
    • Building Machine Learning Models
    • Developing IT-Architecture
    • Optimizing Code / Performance Improvements
    • Deploying Web Apps

  • Research Assistant

    Ruhr-Universität Bochum – Chair for Social Science Data Analysis

    Jul 2019 – Nov 2021 Bochum

    Responsibilities include:

    • Analysing
    • Modelling
    • Deploying Web Apps

  • Research Assistant

    Ruhr-Universität Bochum – Chair for Comparative Politics

    Jul 2018 – Nov 2021 Bochum

    Responsibilities include:

    • Web-Scraping
    • Deploying Desktop Apps
    • Analysing
    • Teaching

  • Student Assistant

    Ruhr-Universität Bochum – Chair for Health Policy

    Jul 2016 – Mar 2018 Ratingen

    Responsibilities include:

    • Data acquisition
    • Data preparation
    • Analysing
    • Participation in scientific projects

  • Responsibilities include:

    • Data preparation
    • Analysing
    • Participation in scientific projects

Accomplish­ments

Using Directed Acyclic Graphs for Causal & Statistical Inference

GESIS  ·  – 07/28/21

This course uses causal graphs as a remarkably simple, yet general and powerful framework to describe and discuss a large set of problems that empirical social scientists need to tackle. How can I communicate my assumptions effectively to others, and can I test them? How can I tell correlation from causation? How do I choose control variables for my regression models?

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Big Data. Introduction to Data Science with Python

GESIS  ·  – 09/18/19

Data Science is the interdisciplinary science of the extraction of interpretable and useful knowledge from potentially large datasets. This course provides an introduction into Data Science for practitioners, covering data collection, preprocessing, exploration, visualization and machine learning using Python and key packages like pandas, numpy and scikit-learn.

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Einführung in die Methoden der modernen Kausalanalyse

GESIS  ·  – 11/17/17

Modern causal analysis as a tool for non-experimental data — covering propensity score matching, instrumental variable estimates, regression discontinuity designs and selection correction models.

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Kausale Mediationsanalyse

GESIS  ·  – 10/06/17

The investigation of causal relationships often goes hand in hand with the question of the processes and mechanisms underlying these relationships and thus potential mediators. This course covers causal diagrams, direct and indirect causal effects, and sensitivity analysis.

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Teaching

Leadership in formal education settings

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Political Science Section

  • (Master) Health policy in international comparison – Instructor (Summer '21) Link / Eval.
  • (Master) International comparison of labour market policies. Why do they differ? What impact does the EU have? – Instructor (Winter '20) Link / Eval.
  • (Master) Erklärung unterschiedlicher Gesundheitspolitiken in Europa – Instructor (Summer '20) Link
  • (Bachelor) Arbeitsmarktpolitik im Vergleich – Instructor (Winter '19) Link / Eval.
  • (Bachelor) Gesundheitspolitik im Vergleich – Instructor (Summer '19) Link / Eval.
  • (Bachelor) Methoden der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft – Instructor (Winter '18) Link

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Methodenzentrum

  • (Workshop) Working with Strings in R (Winter '21) Slides
  • (Workshop) Web-Scraping in R (Winter '21, Summer '21) Slides
  • (Workshop) (Web-)Apps with R-Shiny (Winter '21, Summer '21) Slides
  • (Workshop) Introduction to R (Summer '21, Winter '20, Summer '20) Slides
  • (Workshop) Moderne Kausalanalyse. Rubin Causal Model und Directed Acyclic Graphs (Winter '18) Link

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Social Policy & Social Economy Section

  • (Bachelor) Postkeynesianische Wirtschaftspolitik als Alternative zur ökonomischen Orthodoxie? – Instructor (Summer '16)

Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Romanic Seminar

  • (Bachelor) Einführung in die Wirtschafts und Sozialpolitik für L.E.A. Studierende – Instructor (Winter '18)
  • (Bachelor) Einführung in die Wirtschafts und Sozialpolitik für L.E.A. Studierende – Instructor (Winter '17)
  • (Bachelor) Einführung in die Wirtschafts und Sozialpolitik für L.E.A. Studierende – Instructor (Winter '16)

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