About

Welcome to my personal website! My name is Janine and I am a data scientist based in Berlin, Germany. I hold a MSc in Data Science from Hertie School and a BS in Economics from the University of the Philippines. I have over seven years of professional experience in quantitative data analysis with organizations such as the Asian Development Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Philippine Competition Commission.

I specialize in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for public policy with a focus on text classification and named entity recognition in domain-specific text. This has use cases ranging from the detection of anti-competitive provisions in draft legislation to the parsing of SDG compliance reports. As most human data is textual in nature, I believe NLP is key to understanding the world we live in.

My programming language of choice is Python and . I also have some familiarity with SQL.

Outside of work, I am an aerial arts and pole dance enthusiast. In 2024, I competed in the International Aerial Cup and placed first in the amateur hoop categorgy.