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, road), and skiing (alpine, backcountry).
Adventures, Achievements, and Anecdotes
- I was a committee member for 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 performed improv comedy for two years.1
- I did runway modeling. Twice. These days, I continue my modeling career… with
AIlinear regression. - 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 & Publications
- How to estimate and leverage correlation between metrics (plenary talk) | Booking.com Science & Analytics ’25
- A reality check on NHST in A/B tests | Outperform magazine by Eppo (print in June ’25)
- A Bayesian Multilevel Model for Effective Proxy Metric Use in A/B tests | Conference on Digital Experimentation @ MIT ’24
- The Science & Culture of Experimentation at Booking.com | DataScience@UL-FRI Meetup ’24
- Rethink Significance, Boost Impact | Booking.com Science & Analytics ’24
- Estimating impact of shipped experiments with Bayesian shrinkage (poster) | Booking.com Science & Analytics ’24
- Thumbs up to Empirical Bayes | Booking.com Science & Analytics ’23
- Tossing Around with Bayesian Inference | Python Pizza Hamburg ’21
This blog is a collection of my data science side projects, topics that interest me, and personal stories. It’s built with Quarto and deployed using Netlify.
Footnotes
Here’s my tip for overcoming your fear of public speaking.↩︎