Joseph Bloomer – Economist and Data Scientist

I’m an economist by training who works with data. I moved to Singapore in November 2026 and can work here until June 2027, so I’m looking for a contract or fixed-term role where careful analysis feeds real decisions: economic consulting, research or data analytics.

What I bring

• Causal analysis that stands up to review. My undergraduate dissertation used propensity score matching to separate selection from learning effects in a longitudinal survey of inflation expectations. It is now a co-authored paper under review, and I wrote the full Stata analysis.
• Large-scale data and NLP. For my MSc dissertation I scored 6.1 million online reviews with three sentiment methods, including an open-weight LLM, and tested which best predicts neighbourhood income, poverty and unemployment in regions held out of training. Only the aspect-level model added predictive power on all three.
• Financial analysis built for decisions. I built a portfolio analytics app on a property company’s Xero accounts, covering per-property profit, yield, loan-to-value and an interest-rate stress test with a break-even rate.
• Clear writing. As an Economic Analyst with the QMUL Economics Society I produced economic reports in a team of seven and wrote a five-part series on student financial literacy. I also write economics essays on Substack.

Skills: Python, SQL, R and Stata; econometrics and causal inference; machine learning and NLP; PySpark; data visualisation.

Education

• MSc Data Science, Distinction – Queen Mary University of London (2026)
• BSc (Hons) Economics, First Class – University of Stirling (2025), including a semester at Prague University of Economics and Business