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Umito Takao

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Japan
Data Scientist at KPMG
Joined September 19, 2022

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Japanese
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English
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Fluent
Italian
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Intermediate
About
A purpose-driven Data Scientist with deep analytical and quantitative expertise and MSc. (Hons. / GPA 4.0) in Comparative Politics (with a focus on Econometric and statistical methods and their application). Coming with in-depth knowledge of quantitative methods, model building, and data manipulation as well as data visualization.
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KPMG
Apr 2020 – Present
Tokyo, Japan
Data Scientist
Key responsibilities and achievements are as below: • Created and provided an index of over 3000 listed companies to audit teams, which indicates existing financial risks in various scenarios • Developed and implemented automated flows to optimize the data manipulation done by audit teams, each of which saved 100 hours per year of manual data manipulation • Designed a model monitoring and a model interpretation scheme of a patented machine learning model • Evaluated and deployed a statistical tool company-wide, which is made available to around 6000 employees • Presented analyses at several conferences and to other member firms