As already mentioned in other chapters, I immersed myself in programming and the development of algorithms from during my bachelor’s studies through my master’s degree until today. As a result, I have gained strong skills in the acquisition, processing, refinement and analysis of data.

Projects I have successfully accomplished are very diverse and range from extraction and text analysis to email processing and studies on game theory.

Spotlight online data

The internet could be described as the largest treasure trove of data that has ever existed, which can even be accessed for free. There are automated techniques for extracting online data to use it for an own purpose. This could, for example, be a market and competition study or a research project.

Another option is to process the data obtained dynamically in an online application. Have you ever searched for flights on a platform that summarizes the offers of all airlines? A typical use case.

One of my projects, for example, was to extract the participant data from the CAMX trade fair and transfer it to a separate table. This then contained all the relevant company data.

Spotlight Bots

Bots are programs that can be used to search networks in order to collect targeted data of interest. If you are now thinking of search engines, you are not wrong. In fact, search engines also work via such bots. For example, there is a Google bot that searches continuously the internet to know which pages should be suggested to a user depending on his search term. I have written bots that work in a similar way to such search engines and others that process content from social media platforms.

Post processing

Depending on the type of data collected, post-processing may be useful or necessary.

For example, data can be mapped to visualize locations. This enables or simplifies the evaluation of data with geographical relevance.

I have published a couple of my projects on my GitHub-Profile.