Hi there, I am Alex.
2024
- Making News Recommendations Explainable with Large Language Models Towards Data Science / article ↗
- A Mixed-Methods Approach to Offline Evaluation of News Recommender Systems Towards Data Science / article ↗
- Audience Research: Identifying Key Engagement Drivers at DER SPIEGEL The Audiencers / article ↗
- How User Needs Are Working at Der Spiegel smartocto / client case ↗
- Bird Data Visualizations — Binoculars to Binomials Personal project / data viz ↗
2023
- How We Measure Audience Engagement at DER SPIEGEL The Audiencers / article ↗
- A Digital Map of DER SPIEGEL's 2023 Journalism Medium / article ↗
- Using OpenAI and Machine Learning to Discover News Topic Preferences Medium / article ↗
- Identifying Valuable Potential Subscribers Through Data INMA Smart Data Initiative / webinar ↗
- How Der Spiegel Uses ML to Identify Its Most Valuable Potential Subscribers WAN-IFRA / talk ↗
- AI in Press and Digital Distribution MVFP Akademie / DNV / webinar ↗
- Kaggle — OTTO Product Classification (Top 16%) ML competition ↗
2022
- How Der Spiegel Uses ML To Identify Its Most Valuable Potential Subscribers Medium / article ↗
- Combining User Research & Data Science Methods Medium / article ↗
- An In-Depth Reading Experience Medium / article ↗
- The Power of Long Tail Medium / article ↗
- A Fair Evaluation of Audience Reach Medium / article ↗
2018
- Google News Fellowship @ Spiegel Online Data journalism ↗
- Hamburg Marathon 2018 Data viz ↗
- Bike Sharing Hamburg Open data ↗
- Airrohr — Animated Visualizations Citizen science / data viz ↗
- Street Trees in Hamburg Open data / data viz ↗
- #nr18 Twitter Analysis Blog ↗
- Twitter Bot — Hamburg Open Data Portal Open data / bot ↗
- Cluster Analysis Visualization Blog / R ↗
- Google Takeout — Search History Visualization Blog / data viz ↗
- Cohort Analysis in R Blog / R ↗
- Marketing Attribution Modeling Blog ↗
About
- Data Scientist (Lead since 2026)Der Spiegel / 2019 – present
- Data AnalystZEIT Online / 2018 – 2019
- Google News FellowshipSpiegel Online / Data Journalism / 2018
- Data Analystetracker / 2015 – 2018
- M.Sc. Business AnalyticsUniversity of Duisburg-Essen / 2012 – 2015