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I'm a Geographer by trade (MSc, specialization in GIS) who likes to code. Interested in all things GIS, data visualization, (big) data analysis and automating boring, repetitive stuff.

My projects are focused on areas where coding can make life easier. Here is some more information about the pinned repositories:

• handballStats
  • This is a personal project, where statistics of Handball teams playing in the highest leagues of the Swiss Handball Federation (SHV) are scraped from the SHV's website, then cleaned and visualized interactively using GitHub Pages and D3.js. It features automatic updates via a raspberry pi set up to scrape data in 45 minute intervals on Wed, Sat and Sun between 10:00am and 23:00pm.

• Masters Thesis

  • Here you can find a PDF of my Masters Thesis, which bears the title: Bigger is Better. Or is it? Lessons learned from applying a deep neural network to Twitter posts in order to estimate potentials of using big data to monitor the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

• ICARUS

  • Here you can find the coding repo of the above thesis.

• interactiveICARUS

  • GitHub Pages page that interactively visualizes some of the results from my thesis using D3.js.

• Volcanic Ash Plume Modeling

  • Student Project where we modeled the ash plume and air traffic hazard zones of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption.

• Badewetterindex

  • Student Project where we calculated a "bathing weather index" for Switzerland and visualized it interactively with D3.js. Take a look at the official Website!

By the way, If you're wondering where my GitHub username comes from: Back when I was a teenager, a good friend of mine came to see my handball practice. Since handball is a full-contact sport, one instance of such contact lead to a loud slapping sound (a taetsch in Swiss German) being dispersed in the gymnasium. Henceforth I would use this name for my online aliases, honoring my good friend.