I’m a data scientist living in Antwerp (Belgium) with a background in evolutionary biology. During my PhD in eco-evolutionary dynamics, I discovered my interest in programming. After a short detour in Delphi Pascal I started working with Python and got hooked fast. For my research, I built a variety of individual-based simulation models producing a lot of data along the way. This data was analyzed using R, a programming language I was first introduced to during a statistics course in 2007. After my PhD (2015) I decided to follow my interest in programming and data analysis and started working at a software firm that specializes in smart building / IoT applications. During my time there my activities included: gathering and pre-processing data from Hadoop using R interfaces for Spark and Impala, data tidying and wrangling, building models, visualizing data with ggplot2, leaflet, and building dashboards using Shiny. After 3 years of wrangling sensor data decided to expand my machine learning knowledge and joined the applied AI startup Faktion.