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Markus Kainu
I build software tools for research together with rOpengov for the sake of it and also as my daily job at Research Department of The Social Insurance Institution of Finland
linux|R|SQL|www|open data|open source
Research software in R
eurostat
Leo Lahti, Przemyslaw Biecek, Markus Kainu and Janne Huovari.
N/A
2012 - 2022
R tools to access open data from Eurostat. Data search, download, manipulation and visualization.
geofi
Markus Kainu, Joona Lehtomäki, Juuso Parkkinen, Jani Miettinen, Leo Lahti
N/A
2019 - 2022
R tools for spatial data in Finland
rqog
Markus Kainu
N/A
2012 - 2022
Download and use data from the Quality of Government Institute data in R
pxweb
Måns Magnusson, Markus Kainu, Janne Huovari, and Leo Lahti
N/A
2015 - 2022
The pxweb R package provides tools to interface with the PX-WEB API for data search, download, manipulation and visualization purposes
Employment
UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
consultant
Rome, Italy
2015 - 2018
- Developing software based on R and latex for automated statistical yearbook production
- capacity building
Aleksanteri institute, Finnish Centre of Russian and East European Studies, University of Helsinki
PhD Student
Helsinki, Finland
2010 - 2014
- Working Title of thesis: Poverty, place and income redistribution - Analysis of poverty dynamics in post-socialist transition
Local Government Pensions Institution
consultant
Helsinki, Finland
2014 - 2016
- Developing software based on R and latex for automating the analysis and reporting of monthly survey on Occupational Well-being
Statistics Finland
consultant
Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
2012
- Responsible for analysis of Ethiopian Welfare Monitoring Survey data and writing of a summary report
Publications
Kainu M:
Kuka pelastaisi verkkoalustojen tiedesisällöt?
Idäntutkimus. Vol 28 Nro 3 (2021): Teknologia;
N/A
2021
Mannila S & Kainu M:
Poverty and Confidence in Russia
In: Chernysh Mikhail, Nikula Jouko, editors. Social Distinctions in Contemporary Russia : Waiting for the Middle-Class Society? Routledge;
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2021
Kangas Olli, Palme Joakim & Kainu Markus:
Welfare state entry and exit over the life courseEmployment and the sustainability of the welfare state in different worlds of welfare
In: Foulkes Savinetti, Nicol, and Aart-Jan Riekhoff, Shaping and Re-Shaping the Boundaries of Working Life. Tampere University Press
N/A
2020
Kainu, Markus, Markku Kivinen, Stein Kuhnle, and Chunling Li:
Reform and Stability – The Russian and the Chinese Welfare Systems Compared
Russian Politics, 4.3 (2019), 423–46
N/A
2019
Kainu M, Kulmala M, Nikula J, Kivinen M.:
The Russian welfare state system: with special reference to regional inequality
In: Aspalter C, editor. The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems. Routledge;
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2017
Lahti L, Huovari J, Biecek P, Kainu M.:
Retrieval and Analysis of Eurostat Open Data with the eurostat Package
In: Erola J, Kilpi-jakonen E, editors. Social Inequality Across the Generations: The Role of Compensation and Multiplication in Resource Accumulation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Pub;
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2017
Kulmala, M; Kainu, M; Nikula, J & Kivinen, M.:
Paradoxes of Agency: Democracy and Welfare in Russia.
Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization} 22, 523–552 (2014)
N/A
2017
Education
University of Turku
M.Soc.Sc.
Major: social policy research.
Turku, Finland
2008
Thesis: Impact of public transfers on poverty cycle in the Republic of Moldova in 2001-2004.
Grade: laudatur
Teaching/workshops
Introduction to R and Tidyverse
Kurssilla perehdytään data-analyysin perusasioihin käyttäen R-ohjelmiston Tidyverse-pakettikokonaisuutta. Kurssilla käydään läpi data-analyysin prosessi eri datalähteistä, datan siivoamisen ja muokkaamisen kautta visualisoimiseen
World Wide Web
2019
Introduction to R and Tidyverse
Kurssilla perehdytään data-analyysin perusasioihin käyttäen R-ohjelmiston Tidyverse-pakettikokonaisuutta. Kurssilla käydään läpi data-analyysin prosessi eri datalähteistä, datan siivoamisen ja muokkaamisen kautta visualisoimiseen
Turku, Finland
2018
Introduction to applied data analysis using R
Kurssilla perehdytän laskennallisen data-analyysin perusasioihin R-ohjelmistolla. Kurssilla käydään läpi data-analyysin prosessi eri datalähteistä, datan siivoamisen ja muokkaamisen kautta visualisoimiseen ja mallintamiseen, sekä analyysin tulosten raportoimiseen.
Turku, Finland
2016
Open data in Russian and East-European research
Introduction to use of open research data in Russian and East European studien through case GDELT-data
Helsinki, Finland
2013
Everything was forever until it was no more
The aim of this workshop is to discuss the different opportunities and challenges the digitalization poses for researchers in the academic world.
Helsinki, Finland
2013
A shortcut from data to publication
Reproducible data analysis in quantitative social research using R, Markdown and knitr
Helsinki, Finland
2012