Marco Pistis

Marco Pistis

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Economist & data scientist with over 9 years of experience in processing, analyzing and…

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    Losanna, Vaud, Svizzera

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    Lausanne Area, Svizzera

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    Lausanne Area, Svizzera

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    Geneva Area, Svizzera

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    Geneva Area, Svizzera

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    Roma, Italia

Education

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    University College London, U. of London

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    - Core courses: Advanced Macroeconomics, Advanced Econometrics, Time Series, Monetary Policy, Applied Economic Policy.

    - Final dissertation “Is Quantitative Easing (QE) boosting economic activity? A Structural VAR analysis for the British case 2009-2014”. Software: Eviews and STATA.

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    - Core topics: data acquisition (tabular and non-tabular data), data manipulation, regression models (e.g. Linear, Lasso, Ridge regressions), supervised and unsupervised classifiers (e.g., k-NN, random forests, SVMs, k-means, PCA), deep learning (e.g., NNs and CNNs).

    - Final project on NLP tools, topic modelling and training of a language generation model (i.e., RNN) using Netflix stand-up comedy scripts.

    - Languages used: Python data science stack (i.e., Jupyter Notebook, Numpy…

    - Core topics: data acquisition (tabular and non-tabular data), data manipulation, regression models (e.g. Linear, Lasso, Ridge regressions), supervised and unsupervised classifiers (e.g., k-NN, random forests, SVMs, k-means, PCA), deep learning (e.g., NNs and CNNs).

    - Final project on NLP tools, topic modelling and training of a language generation model (i.e., RNN) using Netflix stand-up comedy scripts.

    - Languages used: Python data science stack (i.e., Jupyter Notebook, Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, SciPy, Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, SpaCy, SBERT, Gensim, NLTK), SQL.

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    - Major in Financial Economics. Core courses: Econometrics, Macroeconomic Analysis, Derivatives, Financial Markets Regulation.

    - Study semester abroad (Fall 2012) at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo (Norway).

    - Final thesis in Macroeconomic Analysis on “Balanced Budget Rules and their Effects on Welfare state spending and Budget Deficit”. Software: Stata.

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    Study Semester abroad (Erasmus programme, Fall 2012)

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    - Major: Economics of Financial Markets and Intermediaries;

    - Final thesis in Econometrics on “Active Labour Market Policies and Benefits: an Empirical Analysis for OECD Countries”. Software: Stata.

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Languages

  • Italian

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Spanish

    Elementary proficiency

  • Francese

    Limited working proficiency

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