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nimathing2052/README.md

Hi there 👋 I'm Nima Thing

About Me

I am a recent graduate of Data Science for Public Policy (2023-2025) at the Hertie School, Berlin, Germany. Originally from Kathmandu, Nepal, I'm currently based in Berlin.

I work at the intersection of data science, social media, politics, and public policy. I'm passionate about combining computer science and engineering methods with social science research to explore political virality, disinformation, populism, and hate speech.

Current Endeavours

Non-Profit Work:

  • Applied Research Engineer at Logiq Media (Jan 2026 - present) — A Berlin-based non-profit helping governments and civil society address polarization, disinformation, and populism. (voluntary work)

Research:

Skills & Interests

Programming Languages:

  • Python (Intermediate), Java (Basic), TypeScript (Basic), R (Basic)

Frameworks & Tools:

  • Web: React, Django, FastAPI, Flask
  • Data Science: Machine Learning/Deep Learning (PyTorch, Spark, Scikit-learnHuggingface), Computer Vision (CLIP), Natural Language Processing (Transformers, BERTopic), Data Visualization (PowerBI, Matplotlib, Plotly), SQL
  • Data Governance: Microsoft Purview, OpenMetadata, Apache Airflow
  • Data Engineering: AWS, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, ETL
  • Automation/Web-scraping/Data Pipeline: Web scraping (Selenium, BeautifulSoup, Botasaurus, Playwright), Postman, ETL, Spark, Microsoft Synapse
  • DevOps: Git, Docker, AWS, Atlassian Bamboo

Languages:

  • English (Fluent), Nepali (Native), Hindi (Professional), German (A2), Tibetan (Basic)

Projects

⭐ Check out my repositories to see my work in computational social science and data science!

Let's Connect

I'm actively looking for opportunities to collaborate on computational social science research, particularly in data science, social media analysis, and political disinformation.

Feel free to reach me there if you'd like to discuss research collaboration or have any questions!

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  1. TikTok_MultiModal_Virality_Prediction TikTok_MultiModal_Virality_Prediction Public

    A multimodal machine learning model to predict TikTok video virality during Nepal’s 2022 elections, integrating multilingual audio transcription (Whisper), image analysis (CLIP and GPT-4V), textua…

    Jupyter Notebook 1 1

  2. SPoRC_TopicModeling SPoRC_TopicModeling Public

    From LDA to BERTopic: Advancing Topic Coherence in Analyzing Podcast Transcripts

    Jupyter Notebook 2

  3. linkedin-demographic linkedin-demographic Public

    A Python pipeline that combines LinkedIn audience data with World Bank demographic data to analyze digital penetration rates and demographic insights.

    Python

  4. TikTok_Nepal_Election TikTok_Nepal_Election Public

    This repository provides a modular and reproducible toolkit to collect, download, and process TikTok data

    Python

  5. HGPU HGPU Public

    A comprehensive web-based automation tool for managing GPU containers and Jupyter notebooks on the Hertie School GPU server.

    Python