Christian Luhmann
Dr. Christian Luhmann is Chief Operating Officer at PyMC Labs, a data science consultancy specializing in solving complex data science problems for businesses. In this role, Christian oversees the day-to-day global business of the firm and ensures that the organization has the necessary coordination, communication, and operating processes. Prior to assuming the role of COO, Christian acted as Project Manager, managing PyMC Labs' global client relationships, helping deliver innovative solutions to meet clients’ businesses' objectives, and driving business development efforts.
Christian began his career in academia, earning a BS degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Psychology. He spent 16 years as a professor, focusing on research in behavioral economics and machine learning and teaching statistics and data science. This experience instilled a strong desire to help others learn from their data.

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Learn how to use data to unlock consumer behavior insights with PyMC-Marketing. This open-source package bundles various pre-built marketing (e.g., media mix modeling) and customer analytics (e.g., customer lifetime value) models. The functionality provided by PyMC-Marketing massively simplifies the data scientist’s job, but to fully take advantage, one must understand the business problems each model solves, the type of data each model requires, and (a bit about) how these models work.