I'm a data scientist focused on forecasting, rare-event prediction, and the data infrastructure that supports them. PhD in political science, former military intelligence officer. Based in Tallinn.

• Building a production ML political event coder for a government client (related public work: mordecai3, NGEC-2025).
• Co-organizing PyData Tallinn and data & ML program director for Digit.dev.

• Peer-reviewed publications on political instability forecasting, hybrid human-machine forecasting (full list at Google Scholar).
• Open-source R packages for political (event) data: icews, states, spduration
• Hobby: CS & software engineering, e.g. jlox interpreter (Java)

• LinkedIn: andreasbeger
• Personal site: andybeger.com