About Me

Hi 👋 I’m Maarten!

Over the last few years I have taken, what felt as, a rather unorthodox path towards becoming a Data Scientist. I started out as a Psychologist with master degrees in organizational- and clinical psychology. Although interesting fields on their own, the statistical nature of the fields grabbed me the most. I sought out to combine psychology and statistics with a master degree in Data Science, which eventually led me to being the Data Scientist I am now.

Some, perhaps, interesting things about me:

• creator of several popular open-source packages;
  • BERTopic
  • PolyFuzz
  • KeyBERT
• finished three MSc degrees cum laude
  • MSc Industrial Psychology
  • MSc Clinical Psychology
  • MSc Data Science & Entrepreneurship
• published my thesis at ECML-PKDD 2019
• written articles on medium about A.I. which, collectively, have been viewed more than 700,000 times
• love playing boardgames (currently Res Arcana!)

Experience

Currently, I work as a Data Scientist at Van Spaendonck where I focus on developing new data-driven propositions, solve problems mostly with Machine Learning and NLP, and work closely together with SMEs. Aside from that I continue writing articles on medium and continue the development of open-source packages.

Timeline

2018-now: A.I. Author @ Medium
2019-now: Freelance Data Scientist / Coach
2019-now: Data Sciencist @ Van Spaendonck
2018-2019: Intern Data Scientist @ Interpolis
2017-2017: Intern Data Scientist @ TomTom
2015-2016: Trainee Clinical Psychologist @ PsyQ
2014-2014: Data Analist @ IEP
2012-2017: Teacher Social Studies @ LOI

Contact

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Feel free to ask me anything!

To contact me, I would advise you to connect on LinkedIn and send a message as I am less likely to respond to Twitter or mail.