Data Scientist
These are data science projects using technologies such as R, R Shiny, ggplot, plotly, linear regression modelling, as well as various other things I dabble in.
These are data science projects I created for fun and/or in order to learn or expand my knowledge on the technologies used.
This report for the International English Library was generated in R using various data analysis and plotting packages such as ggplot2. It analyzes the total item checkouts and distinct patron statistics for 2025, and for historical checkout data, illustrating the library's growth in the past 4 years. The report was generated with R Markdown and tinytex.
This Shiny app is a dashboard for my viewed TV show episodes. It shows totals, averages, plotly plots, as well as raw data, which can all be filtered according to a variety of options.
In this Shiny project I analyze the books I read since Oct 2023 and how much money I spent on them, using plotly plots.
As an organizer of the bi-monthly English-speaking Roleplaying Jam in Düsseldorf, I was curious about the demographics of this community and their language preferences when it comes to roleplaying. I ran a survey using SoSciSurvey and analyzed the data using R, creating ggplots.
As a long time viewer of Doctor Who (2005), I was curious about the decline in quality of the show. In order to visualize this decline, I created ggplots in R of the IMDb ratings and UK viewership numbers of the show's Seasons 1 through 13, taking into account factors such as showrunner, Doctor and companions.
After I finished reading a 16-book series by author Robin Hobb, I was interested in my own personal reading speed, so I analyzed the lengths of these books and came up with my own measure to analyze my reading speed based on book length, plotted in plotly.js.
These are data science projects I worked on during my time in academia. Most are part of my PhD project.
My dissertation contains 5 different projects related to paradigm uniformity effects (see other projects on this site for details), and was published as a 168+ page book by düsseldorf university press.
I conducted a mousetracking experiment to investigate whether listeners can perceive acoustic differences in words spliced from segments of word pairs like days and daze. Details of this study are available in Chapter 6.2 of my dissertation.
This experiment investigated whether participants can hear an acoustic differences between stems of words (e.g. day in days) and artificially lengthened versions of these stems. Details of this study are available in Chapter 6.1 of my dissertation.
This experiment elicited target items by means of a cloze task. The target items were late analyzed under the assumption that there would be durational differences between monomorphemic and complex words. Details of this study are available in Chapter 5 of my dissertation.
My published paper Phonetic reduction and paradigm uniformity effects in spontaneous speech investigates durational differences in homophonous monomorphemic and complex word pairs, using data from the QuakeBox corpus. I later replicated this study with the Buckeye Corpus (see Chapter 4.3 of my dissertation).
Inspired by my semester abroad in Australia, I examined the gender restrictions of the address term 'mate' in Australian English. I conducted a survey study in 2016, which I replicated and expanded in 2022. It is scheduled to be published as In Australia, can anyone be your ‘mate’? - Gender restrictions of the address term ‘mate’ in Australian English.
With a high school diploma and an apprenticeship in design, I sometimes still design stuff.
I overhauled the International English Library's trifold brochure in 2026, layouting the contents in a logical manner in InDesign and taking the new photos that were used in the brochure.
Creating player aids for board games is a hobby of mine, which has taught me valueable skills - first and foremost in the usage of InDesign, but also in the field of UX writing, as writing texts concisely and comprehensively on such limited space is quite a challenge.
I made my own, highly personalized character sheet for the DnD 5e campaign Raiders of the Serpent Sea using InDesign.
For the master's students' conference "Breaking Boundaries" in 2016, I designed and created the poster (in Photoshop) and the printed schedule (in InDesign). Organising and presenting at the conference was part of the MA curriculum.
I created this logo for the student's office of the Department of English Studies using Illustrator.
These projects are related to my current hobbies.
I've been managing the Düsselgamers community since 2016. Originally the Düsseldorf Boardgamers Meetup Group, it has expanded beyond board games and is a large and vibrant community of all types of in-person games. Aside from managing the website, graphic design, discord and public relations, I also organize the bi-monthly Roleplaying Jam event.
I have had personal websites for over 20 years, and these got me into coding and web design. Since quitting most social media, I tend to blog more again - mostly my thoughts about media that I consume.
From Oct 2015 to Mar 2017 I worked on several e-learning projects for the Department of English Studies at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.
The Timelines to Visualize Medieval English History was a project conceived by me and funded by the E-Learning Förderfonds in 2016/2017 at Heinrich-Heine-Universität during my time as a research assistant in the Department of Medieval English Studies (Anglistik I).
I created the database, coded the front-end, and with the help of a student assistant, wrote texts with information relevant for the basic module in Medieval English Studies.
For this project I was one of two student assistants who oversaw the creation and contributed to the ILIAS e-learning module "The English Novel" for Anglistik IV. The project was funded by the E-Learning Förderfonds and run by Friedrich-K. Unterweg.
This module was a follow-up module to "The English Novel" with a focous on drama, also funded by the E-Learning Förderfonds and overseen by Friedrich-K. Unterweg. In this module, took a project management role and I oversaw the creation of content for this ILIAS module, while also contributing sub-modules.