About

       

Hi, I’m Miha and I work as a Data Scientist at Booking.com in Amsterdam, where I help to make it easier for everyone to experience the world, especially attractions. My previous job was at Outfit7 (Ekipa2 d.o.o. subsidiary), the mobile gaming company behind the Talking Tom & Friends franchise. If you are interested in knowing more about my career, check my CV.

I like outdoor sports, especially bouldering, cycling (gravel, MTB or road, doesn’t matter), and skiing (alpine or backcountry, doesn’t matter).

Facts that I’m too lazy to incorporate into the paragraphs:

• I’m a former committee member of PyData Ljubljana and PyData Amsterdam.

• I’m a ski instructor.

• During my early student years, I was a semi-professional poker player, and won a Slovenian poker championship (team event) in 2014.

• I wrote about my first bikepacking “race” on bikepacking.com.

• I designed (and cycled) a four-day road cycling route around Western Slovenia.

• I did improv comedy for two years.¹

• I did runway modeling. Twice. These days, I continue my modeling career… with linear regression artificial intelligence.

• My favorite books:

  • textbook: Statistical Rethinking by Richard McElreath;
  • non-fiction: Incerto by Nassim Nicholas Taleb;
  • fiction: maybe The Princess Bride by William Goldman.

Talks:

• Rethink Significance, Boost Impact at Booking.com Science and Analytics Conference 2024
• Thumbs up to Empirical Bayes at Booking.com Science and Analytics Conference 2023
• Tossing Around With Bayesian Inference at Python Pizza Hamburg 2021

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This blog is a collection of my data science side projects, topics that interest me, and personal stories I want to share. It’s built with Distill and deployed using Netlify. My logo (on the upper-left corner) was created by Jovana Đukić.

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1. Here’s my tip for overcoming your fear of public speaking.↩︎