Project Manager & Senior Data Scientist Paris
MASAE Analytics
2015 - 2020
Data Science Consulting for clients in Africa, the Middle-East and Europe
• Analysis and web platforms for private companies, NGOs, public institutions (Bill Gates Foundation, UNO, World Bank...) and governments
• Geomarketing, connectivity, development and geopolitics issues, leveraging private and open data, satellite imagery and social media content
• Main software packages for data and statistical computing: Python,
Jupyter, R, Stata (and their data analysis packages), Machine/Deep
Learning packages (scikit-learn, Tensorflow, Keras…), GIS databases and
packages (PostGIS, geopandas, QGIS…), data extraction from API
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Telco projects:
• [GSMA/Mobile operators - Mali, Tanzania, Uganda] Gender gap in the Mobile
Money Customer Journey: leveraging mobile operators’ transactional data
(and Call Detail Records) to highlight the differences in mobile money usage between women and men
• [Mobile/Satellite operators - Africa, Europe] Assessing potential for further coverage: geomarketing platforms for mobile and satellite operators to detect
white spots in mobile/Internet coverage
• [GSMA - Africa] Mobile Coverage Maps: high-resolution population and
coverage mapping in several countries in Africa. See https://www.
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• [Mobile operators, insight2impact - Africa] Rural markets detection: leveraging Call Detail Records from mobile operators to improve financial inclusion in Uganda, Tanzania and Madagascar. Click here to see publication
for Uganda
• [Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - Madagascar] Web platform for Monitoring &
Evaluation insights: geomarketing platform based on mobile money transactional data
Development/geopolitics projects:
• [Development players - Africa] Development Projects Dashboards: data visualization platforms for development players
• [EUTF - Horn of Africa] Monitoring and Evaluation System Dashboard: data
platform to supervise aggregated figures on past and ongoing development projects
• [Uganda] Detecting rural habitat: Deep learning on satellite imagery to detect small houses for targeted actions in rural areas
• [Development players - Middle-East] Detecting and estimating destruction in
conflict zones: leveraging satellite radars (SAR) data in Mosul, Hodeida,
Sana’a and Eastern Ghouta to help reconstruction. See: https://sar.
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• [Development players - Africa, Middle-East] Social Media Influencers Detection: identifying key influencers on social media on different topics and
understanding how they interact with each other
• [Development players - Iraq] Impact and vulnerability assessment: assessing
the actual impact of digital campaigns to counter violent extremism on
social media
• [Media development players - Afghanistan] Mapping of media landscape on
social media: leveraging data from social media APIs to understand the
network structure of the links between media’s accounts