Endri Raço

Endri Raço

Highly experienced Statistician, Consultant and lecturer of Statistical analysis and Data Science, driving strategy development based on data management and statistical modelling.

Polytechnic University of Tirane

Biography

Qualified with a PhD in Statistics and with 2 Masters degrees in System Analysis and Control and Informatics and Computing Engineering, I have established a strong career as a consultant working with government bodies and not for profit organisations, leading strategy development, programme management and supporting social initiatives with a foundation of data management and analysis. With a natural affinity towards technical problem solving and driving complex numerical data interpretation, I am a strategic project manager, investing skill, meticulous planning and commercial insight into acquiring the right information and translating findings into tangible results.

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Interests
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Data science
  • Data management
  • Project management
  • Statistical Software
Education

  • PhD in Statistics, 2013

    Polytechnic University of Tirane, Albania

  • MSc in Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2006

    St.Petersburg State Polytechnic University (SPbGPU), Russia

  • MSc in System Analysis and Control, 2006

    St.Petersburg State Polytechnic University (SPbGPU), Russia

  • BSc in System Analysis and Control, 2004

    St.Petersburg State Polytechnic University (SPbGPU), Russia

Skills

rstudio
Statistical Software

100%

project-management
Project Management

90%

datascience
Data Science

90%

datamanagment
Data Managment

90%

statistics
Statistical Analysis

100%

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Polytechnic University of Tirane
Lecturer of Statistical Analysis & Data Science
Polytechnic University of Tirane
Jan 2011 – Present Albania
Sharing my love of numbers and analysis is the foundation of my career. By delivering comprehensive, engaging undergraduate/graduate level teaching in Data Science & Machine Learning; Statistical Programming in R, Python; Probability and Statistics, I project manage the design, content research and delivery of Data Science teaching courses, integrating core data science fundamentals and expanding course content to support related data science disciplines.
 
 
 
 
 
FCG Swedish Development AB
ICT Specialist & Key Expert
FCG Swedish Development AB
Jun 2022 – Present Pristina
As the projects IT focal point for the Programme Implementation Unit, masterminding project deliverables for the Project IT Component, coordinating resources, team engagement and translating each element into core tasks i.e drafting ToR and identifying profiles of short-term experts in Component 3 to execute assignments.
 
 
 
 
 
UNDP
National ICT expert
UNDP
Jun 2022 – Aug 2022 Albania
Leading the project for Continuous Unemployed Learning by integrating national ICT framework insights to develop a digital literacy curriculum, drafting and validating methodology to support adults with low-literacy level. Part of this role is to develop roll out strategies and a scale-up strategy for similar learning platforms across Albania, integrating localised data analysis/market insights to establish bespoke sub-projects.
 
 
 
 
 
UNICEF
Consultant & Statistician
UNICEF
Mar 2020 – Jun 2022 Albania

During this period, I led 3 key projects across different subject areas:

  • Data and Statistics on the Rights and Protection of Children project: Collating, validating, and analysing data acquired from a wide range of resources, translating key insights into tangible information for publication into reports and presentations.
  • Covid19 Emergency Working Group Shiny Dashboard: Establishing a data-driven dashboard through comprehensive data management to deliver a programme strategy in response to the global pandemic.
  • One Click Away Shiny Dashboard: Launched a data-driven thought dashboard to support a programme strategy to identify problems associated with children’s use of the internet; managed the end-to-end project from data research, collation, processing and interpretation.
 
 
 
 
 
Sweden’s Government Agency for Development Cooperation
Statistician & R Expert
Sweden’s Government Agency for Development Cooperation
Nov 2021 – Dec 2021 Albania
Trained employees from the Albanian Institute of Statistics to manage data editing and data tabulation using R language across a range of tasks, including sampling part of business confidence, Balance Sheet, Vital Statistics, System of Agricultural Prices Survey.
 
 
 
 
 
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Consultant & Statistician
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)
Nov 2019 – Feb 2020 Albania
Justice Without Delays project: Collating, validating, and analysing data acquired from a wide range of resources, translating key insights into tangible information for publication into reports and presentations.
 
 
 
 
 
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Consultant & Statistician
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Apr 2019 – Jun 2019 Albania
Skills for Jobs project: Collating, validating, and analysing data acquired from a wide range of resources, translating key insights into tangible information for publication into reports and presentations.
 
 
 
 
 
UNDP
National ICT expert
UNDP
Mar 2018 – Apr 2019 Albania
STAR2 project: Created ToRs and led data science tasks/data extraction to build a national dashboard for municipalities to interact with the public and drive decision-making.
 
 
 
 
 
UNDP
Consultant & Statistician
UNDP
Dec 2015 – Jun 2017 Albania
Leave No One Behind project: Designed/developed Shiny dashboard, collecting and reporting from 61 municipalities with more than 150.000 observations in real-time data. Performed statistical research and translated findings into official reports to identify the true picture of municipalities’ housing needs.
 
 
 
 
 
Sweden’s Government Agency for Development Cooperation
Statistician & R Expert
Sweden’s Government Agency for Development Cooperation
Oct 2014 – Nov 2017 Albania

During this period, I performed different tasks across different subject areas:

  • Trained employees from the Albanian Institute of Statistics and Kosovo Agency of Statistics to manage data editing, data tabulation, data visualization and reporting using R language across a range of tasks.

  • Albanian Names Database Dashboard: Launched a data-driven thought dashboard processing more than 2.000.000 data from Civil State Agency; managed the end-to-end project from data research, collation, processing and interpretation.

 
 
 
 
 
UN Women
Consultant & Statistician
UN Women
Jul 2014 – Mar 2015 Albania
GRB and Monitoring and Statistics /UN Support to Social Inclusion project: Collating, validating, and analysing data acquired from a wide range of resources, translating key insights into tangible information for publication into reports and presentations, to increase institutional reporting time and facilitating cooperation between Albanian Institute of Statistics and other state agencies on building data exchange protocols.
 
 
 
 
 
UNFPA
Consultant & Statistician
UNFPA
Mar 2013 – Jan 2014 Albania
UN Support to Social Inclusion project: Launched a data-driven thought electronic index of judicial students and staff data to facilitate institutional document processing; managed the end-to-end project from data research, collation, processing and interpretation.
 
 
 
 
 
World VIsion
Consultant & Statistician
World VIsion
Jul 2012 – Jan 2013 Albania
GIS Support for Social Inclusion project: Launched a data-driven thought dashboard of Social Services in Albania to facilitate geospatial data analytics from more than 20 institutions, including mapping and visualizations; managed the end-to-end project from data research, collation, processing and interpretation.
 
 
 
 
 
UNFPA
Consultant & Statistician
UNFPA
Jan 2011 – Jun 2011 Albania
RH Services, Information and Counselling project: Launched a data-driven thought dashboard of data from health institutions in all Albanian Municipalities; managed the end-to-end project from data research, collation, processing and interpretation.

Accomplish­ments

Coursera
Data Science
Coursera May 2020
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Coursera
Data Science Statistics and Machine Learning
Coursera May 2020
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edx
Data Science Professional Certificate
edx Jul 2019
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Vice Data Analytics
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Vice Data Analytics
Data Analytics of postings on a 3-year period of time for Vice Media
Endri Raco
Vice Data Analytics
Social Housing in Albania
Dashboard reflecting key findings of Social Housing in Albania study conducted by UNDP
Endri Raco
Social Housing in Albania
Albanian Database of Names
Albanian Institute of Statistics dashboard of Albanian names collected from Civil State Registry
Endri Raco
Albanian Database of Names
One Click Away
Dashboard to reflect key findings of One Click Away study by Unicef
Endri Raco
One Click Away
Covid Situation in Balkans
Real time tracking of COVID-19 situation in Balkan Countries
Endri Raco
Covid Situation in Balkans

Use of Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Hydrochemical Data for the Identification of the Geochemical Processes in the Tirana-Fushe Kuqe Alluvial Aquifer, North-Western Albania

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Oriana Zacaj, Endri Raco, Kleida Haxhi, Etleva Llagami, Kostaq Hila (2022). Bootstrap Methods for Claims Reserving: R Language Approach. WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, 21 252-259.

Endri Raco, Kleida Haxhi, Etleva Beliu (Llagami), Oriana Zacaj (2022). Comparison of Statistical Methods for Claims Reserve Estimation Using R Language. WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics, 23 327-340.

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