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About the author

Furkan Çoban

I'm Furkan Çoban, an applied economist and data scientist based in Oldenburg, Germany.

I am doing my M.Sc. in Applied Economics and Data Science at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg. My work sits where econometrics meets engineering: replicating published results on independently built pipelines, building panels from satellite and administrative data, and turning the boring parts into tools that run on their own.

I care about reproducibility (one command from raw data to final PDF), honest identification, and software other people can actually install. Outside of work, I make music as a hobby.

Education

OngoingM.Sc. Applied Economics & Data Science
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Methods & tools

EconometricsPanel data (TWFE) · Dynamic panel GMM · Replication · Time series (ARIMAX) · Policy evaluation
SpatialGIS · sf · Google Earth Engine · Nighttime lights · GHSL
LanguagesR · Python · SQL · TypeScript · JavaScript · C
ML & AIscikit-learn · XGBoost · RAG · LangGraph · Chroma · Cross-encoder reranking
Data engineeringETL pipelines · PostgreSQL · Docker · GitHub Actions · Metabase
PublishingQuarto · CRAN packaging · renv · Make · Astro

Selected coursework

  • Applied Econometrics Using GIS Techniques
  • Development Economics Seminar
  • Econometrics of Policy Evaluation
  • Spatial Econometrics
  • Forecasting Methods
  • Data Science 1
  • Business Intelligence I & II
  • Computer Science for Science

Elsewhere