Kamil Wais Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów

Biography

Kamil Wais Ph.D. — Data Scientist with R programming skills, specializing in new research techniques in Social Science based on Internet technologies and Open Data.

Professional experience gained as Research Product Manager in one of the largest global institutes of market and opinion research. Currently, Assistant Professor in Department of Quantitative and Qualitative Methods at University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland.

Interests

New Research Techniques based on Internet
CAWI & On-Line Access Panels
Data Science for Social Good
Reactive Programming in R & Shiny
Developing Data Products
Research & Administrative Open Data

Education

Over 110 MOOCs completed, 2012-2017

Coursera.org, EdX.org, etc.
Statistical Methods in Business, 2012

Warsaw University, SAS Institute
European IT Certification Academy Business (EITCA-B), 2010

European IT Certification Academy, Brussels
PhD in History, 2008

University of Rzeszow, Poland
MS in Sociology, 2004

University of Rzeszow, Poland

Selected Publications

Środowisko fizyczne i społeczne oraz jakość funkcjonowania szkoły a zdrowie subiektywne i zachowania zdrowotne nastolatków. Raport końcowy z realizacji projektu badawczego

Opracowanie stanowi podsumowanie wyników projektu badawczego realizowanego w Zakładzie Zdrowia Dzieci i Młodzieży Instytutu Matki i Dziecka w Warszawie w latach 2014-2017 w ramach umowy z Narodowym Centrum Nauki (nr 09/B/HS6/03438) w konkursie OPUS 5. Projekt zatytułowany był: Środowisko fzyczne i społeczne oraz jakość funkcjonowania szkoły a zdrowie subiektywne i zachowania zdrowotne nastolatków – zastosowanie modeli strukturalnych i ścieżkowych szacowanych na danych o strukturze hierarchicznej.

Joanna Mazur, Agnieszka Małkowska-Szkutnik, Izabela Tabak, Anna Dzielska, Dorota Zawadzka, Anna Kowalewska, Hanna Nałęcz, Dorota Kleszczewska, Magdalena Stalmach, Anna Oblacińska, Kamil Wais, Marta Malinowska-Cieślik, Krzysztof Wąż, Barbara Woynarowska

Instytut Matki i Dziecka, Warszawa 2017

Details PDF

Gender Prediction Methods based on First Names with genderizeR

In recent years, there has been increased interest in methods for gender prediction based on first names that employ various open data sources. These methods have applications from bibliometric studies to customizing commercial offers for web users. Analysis of gender disparities in science based on such methods are published in the most prestigious journals, although they could be improved by choosing the most suited prediction method with optimal parameters and performing validation studies using the best data source for a given purpose.

Kamil Wais

In The R Journal

Details PDF Code Project CRAN Lista A: 30pkt.

Recent Publications

Środowisko fizyczne i społeczne oraz jakość funkcjonowania szkoły a zdrowie subiektywne i zachowania zdrowotne nastolatków. Raport końcowy z realizacji projektu badawczego
Details PDF
Personal Loan Companies in Poland: Does Empirical Evidence Justify Regulatory Transition?
Details PDF WWW Lista A: 20pkt.
External evaluation of the school and academic achievements in relation to alcohol drinking and delinquent behaviour among secondary school students / Wyniki zewnętrznej ewaluacji szkoły i osiągnięcia w nauce a picie alkoholu i wykroczenia gimnazjalistów
Details PDF WWW Lista B: 13pkt.
Gender Prediction Methods based on First Names with genderizeR
Details PDF Code Project CRAN Lista A: 30pkt.
Loan perception and loan-related attitude of Poles: evidence from the field
Details PDF Lista B: 7pkt.
Sektor shadow banking w Polsce
Details WWW
Access Panel and its specificity as a challange for new research techniques based on internet technologies / Access Panel i jego specyfika jako wyzwanie nowych technik badawczych opartych na technologiach internetowych
Details PDF WWW Lista B: 15pkt.
Action for Growth. A resource to enable Scout Associations to develop a growth strategy
Details PDF PDF on EuroScoutInfo.com

Conferences & Talks

Recent & Upcoming

International On-line Expert Access Panel for Open Science Development (poster)
Tue, Mar 1, 2016, Research Data Alliance (RDA) 7th Plenary Meeting, Tokyo, Japan

Recent Posts

Seminarium z udziałem prof. Philipa Zimbardo

Sun, Jun 25, 2017 news, conferences seminar

W sobotę (24.06) odbyło się na WSIiZ insprujące seminarium z udziałem on-line prof. P.Zimbardo. Philip Zimbardo był w 1971 roku liderem sławnego Stanfordzkiego Eksperymentu Więziennego i świadkiem-ekspertem w sprawie więzienia Abu Ghraib. Autor wpływowych książek: The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life i The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Warto zapoznać się z projektem Profesora Zimbardo: Heroic Imagination Project.

My Data Science & Programming Skills & Tools

Tue, Jun 6, 2017 CV R, programming, DataScience

Here is a selection of my Data Science and Programming skills and tools that turned out to be helpful in my work and I believe are important for any Data Scientist as well. The last update of this post was done: 2017-06-25. Data Science Skills Data Manipulation Efficient data manipulation in R; dplyr, data.table, reshape2. Working with dates and time-series; lubridate, xts. Reproducible Analyses RStudio IDE, Markdown, LaTeX;

Resources: Programming & Data Science in R

Thu, Jun 1, 2017 bibliography R, MOOCs, books, programming, DataScience

This post is an annotated bibliography of helpful resources for programming and doing Data Science in R. I will try to expand this list and add some short recommendations in the future. The last update of this post was done: 2017-06-25. Books (on-line & printed) Hadley Wickham, Advanced R The book is designed primarily for R users who want to improve their programming skills and understanding of the language. It should also be useful for programmers coming to R from other languages, as it explains some of R’s quirks and shows how some parts that seem horrible do have a positive side.

Building static homepage with R & blogdown

Wed, May 31, 2017 news blogdown, R

This new homepage is a static website generated in R (!) with the help of brilliant blogdown package by Yihui Xie. Hugo is the site engine and it also uses amazing Academic theme.

More about the blogdown R package you can find here: https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/

Some additional usefull posts:

Presentation of R package LimeRick on eRum

Sun, Oct 9, 2016 conferences R, software, LimeSurvey

UPDATE: The online static version of the presentation is available here: http://rpubs.com/kalimu/erum. Thank you for all the feedback! In two days, from 12 to 14 October, 2016 in Poznan (Poland) will take place the conference “eRum 2016: european R users meeting“. I will give a talk about new R package: LimeRick. LimeRick enables close connection between two important open-source projects: R and LimeSurvey. LimeSurvey is the most advanced open-source system for on-line survey and Computer Aided Web Interviewing (CAWI) and together with R they offer advanced ecosystem for gathering and analyzing declarative data.

Research & Software

Projects

limeRick
The bridge between LimeSurvey and R.
genderizeR
The R package for gender prediction based on first names.
RRUG
Resovia R User Group

Teaching & Training

Graduate, Postgraduate & PhD Level

Statistics
Inferential Statistics
Analysis and Visualisation of Economic Data
Introduction to R (PhD level workshop)

Hire me!

What can I do for you?

Collaboration in non-profit & commercial research projects
- reproducible data analysis
- machine learning & statistical analysis
- scripting for on-line surveys data collection
- Computer-Aided Web Interviewing (CAWI)
- interactive web reporting of research data
- co-authoring research papers
R packages development
- GitHub & CRAN deployment
Data Producs development
- reactive programming in R & Shiny
- prototyping and expanding Shiny application
Trainings in R programming and data analysis
Methodological & Analytical Consultations

Feel free to send me an e-mail if you have any questions!

Contact

kamil.wais@gmail.com
Rzeszów, Poland

Kamil Wais Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Biography

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Education

Selected Publications

Recent Publications

Conferences & Talks

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Research & Software

Teaching & Training

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