About

Hello! I am specialised in converting text to numbers and numbers to text.

I have finished my master's programme in Social Data Science from the University of Copenhagen in the summer of 2022. My master's thesis is in the field of legal text processing. I analyse 64,000 Danish court rulings published in the journal Ugeskrift for Retvæsen in the period 1867 to 2021. I explore the evolution of the Danish legal language and I predict who is to pay the cost of a trial of a given case. You can find the entire thing here.

Basic Information
Email:
espen.rostrup@outlook.com
Phone:
+45 5188 1422
Address:
Nordlandsgade, København
Language:
Danish, English
Work Experience

June 2021 - June 2022

Department of Sociology
Student assistant at the Department of Sociology

At the institute of Sociology I have helped assistant professors Hjalmar Bang Carlsen and Jonas Toubøl making sense of a survey focusing on solidarity and volunteering during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn about the project here (in Danish).

February 2019 - January 2021

Incentive
Consultant

I have worked on several different kinds of data-driven projects in Incentive, e.g. optimising the public train and bus schedule to minimise connection time, creating a database with prices of medical products from different countries retrieved online using Python, create a dataset that is to be used for minimising travel time for Danish pilots across Denmark and so on. Furthermore, I have improved my coding skills in Python and Visual Basic for Applications.

April 2016 - February 2019

CEPOS
Student assistant

As a student in CEPOS I have gained a broad understanding for political process, communication of political messages and improved my data analysis skills in STATA and R.

Education

September 2020 - June 2022

Master's Degree
Master of Science (MSc) in Social Data Science

University of Copenhagen

The master's degree programme in Social Data Science combines state-of-the-art data science techniques, including machine learning, predictive analytics and natural language processing with core sociological, economic, anthropological, political science and psychological theories and methods. Hence I have gained competences that allow me to identify, assess and solve societal and business problems using all sorts of data. Read about the programme structure here.

September 2015 - January 2019

Bachelor's Degree
Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Economics

University of Copenhagen

The bachelor's degree in Economics at the University of Copenhagen has left me with a deep understanding of how to analyse complicated problems within a variety of different areas in society using quantitative methods. You can read about the programme here (in Danish).

September 2010 - June 2013

High School
STX student

Helsingør Gymnasium and Niels Brock

A levels in Music, English and Mathematics.

Skills
Programming languages
Advanced:
Python (pytorch, scikit-learn, beautiful soup, pandas), VBA.
Intermediate:
STATA.
Basic:
Git, C++, R, SAS, SQL, HTML.
Other skills
Language:
Danish (mother tongue), English (advanced).
Technical skills:
Advanced user of all standard Microsoft Office applications.
Tableau (Basic)
Personal skills:
I am quite adept at playing the piano and guitar.
Contact Me
Feel free to contact me

Address

Nordlandsgade, København

Phone

+45 5188 1422

Email

espen.rostrup@outlook.com