Peter Reschenhofer

Peter is a data scientist and joined WIFO in 2012. He studied computer science at the University of Applied Sciences Regensburg and economics at the University of Vienna. His main focus is on network analysis, which he applies in different economic domains (e.g. product space – trade data, knowledge domain – patent data) on the one hand, and the visualization of big data on the other hand. Due to his long experience as a web developer, he focuses on interactive web visualizations. As a programmer, he uses various state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to solve entity matching, classification and prediction problems.