Aleix Ruiz de Villa

Aleix Ruiz de Villa Robert has over 15 years of experience as a data scientist. He earned his PhD in mathematics and a master’s in financial mathematics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He was the head of data science at LaVanguardia.com and SCRM (Lidl International Hub) and chief data scientist at Onna.

Since 2019, he has been working independently as a freelancer, focusing on research projects and teaching at various universities and business schools. He also advises the startup Nuclia.

Aleix is very active in organizing open events related to data science. He helped run the Barcelona R Users Group from 2011 to 2017 and founded and co-organized the Barcelona Data Science and Machine Learning meetup from 2014 to 2021.

books by Aleix Ruiz de Villa

Causal Inference for Data Science

  • December 2024
  • ISBN 9781633439658
  • 392 pages
  • printed in black & white

Causal Inference for Data Science introduces techniques to apply causal reasoning to ordinary business scenarios. And with this clearly-written, practical guide, you won’t need advanced statistics or high-level math to put causal inference into practice! By applying a simple approach based on Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), you’ll learn to assess advertising performance, pick productive health treatments, deliver effective product pricing, and more.