Rüdiger Voigt, M.A., is a political scientist and worked in IT as a programmer, database developer and course instructor.
He is a doctoral student at the University of Cologne (Germany).
His main research interests are machine learning, data science, comparative politics, and international relations.
Research Notes
- Databases and Data Sources:
- Security Studies:
- Political Science Methods:
Teaching
- Datenbanken und SQL
A compact course on "databases and SQL" held in German language for the Regional Computing Center (RRZK) at the University of Cologne since 2016. - Einführung in den wissenschaftlichen Textsatz mit LaTeX
Introductory course to the LaTeX typesetting system held in German language for the Regional Computing Center (RRZK) at the University of Cologne.
Software
I released some software I wrote as Open Source:
- Exoskeleton
- A Python framework to build polite, but tenacious crawlers / scrapers with a MariaDB backend.
- salted
- Smart, Asynchronous Link Tester with Database backend: works with HTML, Markdown and TeX files.
- userprovided
- A Python library to check user input for validity and / or plausibility
- compatibility
- A Python library that checks whether the running version is compatible and tested. Remind the user to check for updates.
- agg
- A Python library to aggregate files and data.
- bote
- A Python library to send email. Enforces encryption if not sending via localhost.
Data and Analyses
- Tracking Covid-19 in Germany: a set of Jupyter notebooks
- My list of important data sources
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