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Markus Kainu

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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.

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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

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2019 - 2022

R tools for spatial data in Finland

rqog

Markus Kainu

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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

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2015 - 2022

The pxweb R package provides tools to interface with the PX-WEB API for data search, download, manipulation and visualization purposes

Employment

Research unit at National Social Insurance Institution of Finland

researcher

Helsinki, Finland

2016 - 2022

  • Social policy research related to regional disparities and travel reimbursements
  • Development of computing environments on various linux platforms
  • Capacity building within Kela research through ongoing internal R-courses, code reviewing and software development
  • Automating research and statistical publications such as koronamittarit.kela.fi or Purchased prescription medicines in Finland
  • Software development of in-house occupational well-being surveys

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;

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2021

Mannila S & Kainu M: Poverty and Social Exclusion in Russia

In: Kivinen Markku, Humphreys Brendan, editors. Russian modernization. A new paradigm. Routledge;

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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

Kivinen, Markku, Meri Kulmala, Jouko Nikula, Simo Mannila, Kainu Markus, Laura Kemppainen, Teemu Kemppainen, et al.: Modernization of the Russian Social Policy: Social Crisis, Interventions, and Withdrawals

In: Russian Modernization: A New Paradigm. Routledge

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2020

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

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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

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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

Kangas O, Palme J, Kainu M: The multifaceted roles of the social investment state in compensating, accumulating and multiplying endowments over the life cycle

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

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