Data Scientist and Developer in Tbilisi, Georgia

This is a simple personal website powered by Flask and Dash. It is run in a Docker container and has monitoring systems tracking web activity and errors. While I'm not specialized in web development, the ability to create a simple web interface to visualize data or Machine Learning model's predictions can be very handy.

This is a simple yet efficient Python package to parse XML. The package is written specifically for the fast extraction of tabular data (unlike xmltodict, which handles XML of any structure, but slower). XML is not the most Data Science friendly format, so the ability to transform it to Pandas or SQL can be very handy.

In 2018, before I started to work as a data scientist, I was studying textbooks on machine learning and testing the newly learned methods in various mini-projects. That's when I found this competition about predicting store sales on Kaggle. Time series is one of my favorite subjects, so I jumped in.
It was very fun to explore and visualize the dataset, to find interesting quirks in it. In particular, soon it became clear that this data had been synthetically generated, which gave out an important clue on how to solve this problem. And it was very exciting that in the end, my analysis paid off and I scored the first place!
Also, I was working on this project with my ex-colleague, so it was a good collaborative experience with just a touch of project management. Of course, it was far from the complexity of managing a real data science project—still, it gave me at least some sense of what might be waiting ahead.