Hello, my name is
Birko-Katarina Ruzicka
I am a professional solution engineer, data scientist, and digitalisation consultant with mosaiic.
A planetary geoscientist by training, I previously used remote sensing techniques to study comets, moons, and terrestrial planets.
Today, I am applying my versatile skills to creating more down-to-Earth solutions. With practical experience as a certified Data Scientist, I am delighted to consult on business applications for machine learning, neural networks, and big data.
I am fiercely passionate about open and accessible science and knowledge transfer, and creating practical applications of science to solve everyday problems. To that end, I have worked with many projects in scientific outreach, sci com, open data, and open research.
Please connect with me via twitter or the contact form if you’d like to discuss my research or potential collaboration.
Newest blog posts:

Gender in „Star Trek“ dialogue and characters
July 23, 2021
Dialogue in movies and series has been unevenly distributed between genders this far. I studied how this was handled within the Star Trek franchise, by analysing the dialogue transcripts of 760 episodes of Star Trek.

IMDb ratings for all episodes of 'Star Trek: Voyager'
July 12, 2021
In which I use a database from IMDb to visualize the average user rating for each episode of 'Voyager'.
This is my first project in R using ggplot2.

Opinion trends from Tweets: Analysis in Python
June 6, 2021
In which I show how to use Python to analyze opinions voiced on Twitter.
This post serves as a short intro to techniques of natural language processing (NLP) and statistical semantic analysis methods, used on text-samples I scraped from Twitter.
A sneak peek at my geoscience research projects:
Selected Publications
The complete library of my publications can be found on the ‘publications‘ page.
Detecting and analysing geomorphological structures in images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko using Fourier transform
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Published: 04 March 2021Birko-Katarina Ruzicka, Matthias Schröter, Andreas Pack, Hermann Boehnhardt
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Analysis of layering-related linear features on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 482(4): 5007—5011, 2018Birko-Katarina Ruzicka, Luca Penasa, Hermann Boehnhardt, Andreas Pack, Benoit Dolives, Fabrice Souvannavong, and Emile Remetean
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