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Projects

Two theses graded 6, plus analyses, simulations and tools in R and Python. Each one has the code and the reasoning behind it.

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Master's thesis, UZH2023

Learning and memory formation in children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders

EEG data from children and adolescents with various psychiatric disorders, analysed with linear mixed-effects models to track successful learning. Graded 6.

Bachelor's thesis, UZH2021

Support vector machines vs. CNNs for Alzheimer's disease classification

A systematic review comparing classical machine learning and deep learning for classifying Alzheimer’s disease from MRI images. Graded 6.

Statistics2023

Simpson's paradox and mixed-effects models

How a trend can flip once you account for hierarchical structure, shown with the palmerpenguins data and random effects.

Visualisation2024

Visualising Likert scales

Diverging bar plots that make positive and negative opinions in survey data readable at a glance.

Tools2024

Interactive presentations with Quarto

Reveal.js slides with interactive echarts4r plots, rendered to a single HTML file anyone can open.

NLP2023

Sentiment analysis of Google News headlines

Scraping news headlines and scoring their sentiment in Python.

Visualisation2024

Visualising semantic differential scales

Plotting User Experience Questionnaire results, where people rate a product between pairs of opposite adjectives.

Simulation2022

How sample size affects variable selection

A simulation of how often lm() and stepwise selection pick the true predictors as the sample grows.

Statistics2023

Confidence intervals by simulation

Simulating repeated samples of voters to show what a 95% confidence interval does and does not promise.

Visualisation2023

Themes and annotations in ggplot2

Using themes and annotations to surface the story in a chart, with the gapminder data.

Visualisation2023

Building a company theme for ggplot2

A reusable ggplot2 theme for consistent, on-brand charts.

Tools2024

Building my first R package

Notes on structuring an R package: dependencies, DESCRIPTION files, documentation and testing.

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OLIVER ZINGG

Psychologist and data scientist in Zürich. I design the study, model the data and explain what it means.

STATUS
Open to full-time data science roles from January 2027
NOW
Working student, data science & project management at Zurich Insurance (since Nov 2025)
THESIS
M.Sc. thesis (HSLU): leveraging double machine learning for robust decision-making, due December 2026
EDUCATION
M.Sc. Psychology (UZH, 5.6) · M.Sc. Applied Information & Data Science (HSLU, Dec 2026)
TOOLS
R, Python, SQL, Matlab · Power BI, Tableau · mixed models, ML, BERTopic

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  1. Learning and memory formation in children and adolescents with psychiatric disordersMaster's thesis, UZH · 2023
  2. Support vector machines vs. CNNs for Alzheimer's disease classificationBachelor's thesis, UZH · 2021
  3. Simpson's paradox and mixed-effects modelsStatistics · 2023