Public speaking

I love giving talks and workshops! Here is a list of the ones I have done in the past. It's been a while, but I plan to take this up more often in the near future. 🎤

Presenting at the useR! 2019 conference in Toulouse

Talks

• August 2020 (Brussels) | Public PhD defense
  • "Sentiment and Econometrics: Toward A Unified Framework of Textual Sentiment Analysis for Economic and Financial Applications" [slides]
• January 2020 (Leuven) | 23rd Data Science Leuven Meetup
  • "Sentometrics - Aggregate textual data into index solutions" [slides]
• December 2019 (London) | International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics
  • "Conservative and timely ESG-compliant investment screening using text mining" [slides]
• July 2019 (Toulouse) | useR!
  • "The R package sentometrics to compute, aggregate and predict with textual sentiment" [slides] [video]
• May 2019 (Ispra) | BigNOMICS Workshop on Big Data and Economic Forecasting
  • "The Sentometrics approach for textual sentiment based prediction" [slides]
• September 2018 (Vienna) | International Conference on Data Science in Finance with R
  • "The R package sentometrics to compute, aggregate and predict with textual sentiment" [slides]
• June 2018 (Winterthur) | SwissText
  • "Indexation and monitoring of corporate reputation using the R package sentometrics" [poster]
• June 2018 (Chicago) | R/Finance
  • "The R package sentometrics to compute, aggregate and predict with textual sentiment" [slides]
• May 2018 (Budapest) | European R Users Meeting (eRum)
  • "An integrated framework in R for textual sentiment time series aggregation and prediction" [slides] [video]
• December 2017 (London) | International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics
  • "Accounting for non-normality and luck in fund peer performance evaluation" [slides]

Workshops

• October 2023 (Mechelen) | Telenet
  • Two-day workshop to introduce Python and pandas to a team of Telenet data analysts
• November 2021 (Brussels) | Solvay Brussels School
  • Two-day "Prediction in R" hackaton as part of Solvay's Executive Program in Business Analytics
• May 2021 (remote) | Belgian Association of Marketing (BAM)
  • Gave the "Essentials of coding/modeling" session as part of BAM's "Discover Data Science" course [slides]
• January 2018 (Amsterdam) | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Multi-session data case workshop on text mining for marketing students