Hi!
I’m Berry, a freelance R trainer and consultant based in Potsdam,
Germany.
I give R courses, develop
rdwd and other packages
and co-organize the Berlin R User
Group.
Contact me to book me as a
trainer or request assistance with data science projects.
Fields of expertise
- Data analysis & visualisation
- Introductionary & advanced R courses
- Package development
- Spatio-temporal data analysis
- Extreme value statistics
- Environmental science (Msc Geoecology)
Teaching experience
- semester classes at Potsdam University and Hasso Plattner Institute
- one-week workshops in Central Asia
- two-day Software Carpentry Workshops
- tutorials for hydrologists
- MOOC with 2’000 active participants
Click to see details on a selection of courses.
GE = Geoecology
study program at Potsdam University
R intro tutorial | 2012 + 2013 | GE Bsc module 'Data analysis' | weekly classes |
Intermediate R in hydrology | fall 2012 | GE students, hydrology PhD students | Saturday sessions |
R intro workshop | Dec 2013 | CaWa scientists in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | One week course |
R basics classes | 2015 - 2018 | GE Msc | weekly classes |
R intro workshop | Sept 2016 | CaWa scientists in Almaty, Kazakhstan | One week course |
Using R in hydrology | Apr 2017 | Hydrologists at European Geoscience Union | EGU short course |
Software Carpentry Workshop | Researchers at Telegrafenberg Potsdam | two day workshop | |
Beta distribution | June 2017 | Berlin R User Group | one hour tutorial |
Advanced R course | Jan 2019 | GE Msc + PhD students | workshop series |
Fundamentals of R and Python | digital health Msc + PhD students at HPI | weekly classes | |
Statistics in Connected Healthcare | digital health Msc + PhD students at HPI | tutorial sessions | |
R Grundlagen MOOC | March 2022 | 5000 diverse participants | online course |
Geostatistik mit R | Feb 2023 | gis-trainer.com participants | 4 day workshop |
Programming references
Packages on CRAN
- rdwd to handle German weather data from within R
- OSMscale for easy static maps with scalebars
- rskey for rstudio keyboard shortcuts
- extremeStat to fit, plot and compare extreme value distributions
- berryFunctions with miscellaneous useful functions