Hi!
I’m Berry, environmental scientist by training and R enthusiast by heart. I’m based in Potsdam near Berlin, Germany.
I give R courses, develop rdwd and other packages, co-organize the Berlin R User Group and help people with data analysis projects.
Starting 2020, I plan to be a freelance R trainer and consultant. Please feel free to already contact me for work requests or job offerings.
Fields of expertise
- Data analysis & visualisation
- Introductionary & advanced R courses
- Package development
- Spatio-temporal data analysis
- Extreme value statistics
Teaching experience
- R tutorial within module “Data analysis” for Bsc Geoecology at Potsdam University (UP), weekly sessions, 2012 + 2013
- Intermediate R courses with hydrology tasks, organized on saturdays, fall 2012
- CaWa one week R intro course in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Dec 2013
- Introductionary half-semester weekly courses for Msc Geoecology at UP, fall 2015 + 2016 + 2017 + 2018
- CaWa one week course in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Sept 2016
- Using R in hydrology EGU short course, Apr 2017
- Software Carpentry Workshop trainer, May 2017 + Apr 2018 + Nov 2019
- Beta distribution tutorial at Berlin R User Group, June 2017
- Advanced R course, Msc and PhD Geoecology at UP, Jan 2019
- R course for digital health students at HPI, fall 2019 + 2020
- Tutor in stats course at HPI, summer 2020
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