I'm a data scientist focused on forecasting, rare-event prediction, and the data infrastructure that supports them. PhD in political science, former military intelligence officer. Based in Tallinn.
- Building a production ML political event coder for a government client (related public work: mordecai3, NGEC-2025).
- Co-organizing PyData Tallinn and data & ML program director for Digit.dev.
- Peer-reviewed publications on political instability forecasting, hybrid human-machine forecasting (full list at Google Scholar).
- Open-source R packages for political event data: icews, states, acledr, spduration
- Hobby: CS & software engineering, e.g. jlox interpreter (Java)
- LinkedIn: andreasbeger
- Personal site: [andybeger.com](https://andybeger.com]