Courses
Statistics, data science, and digital media. All course materials are public — code and exercises on GitHub.
2024/25 — 2025/26
- 2025/26UG · 5 ECTSCroatian Catholic UniversityMaterials →
Web infrastructure, content management systems, strategic communication planning, AI implications, and digital analytics. Students learn to critically evaluate and implement web communication strategies.
- 2024/25UG · 6 ECTSCroatian Catholic UniversityMaterials →
Statistical foundations for communication students. Descriptive statistics, probability theory, hypothesis testing, and inferential statistics in R (tidyverse, ggplot2), with examples from media and communications.
2020/21 — 2021/22
- 2021/22GraduateFaculty of Croatian Studies, ZagrebMaterials →
Data types and sources, R programming, data visualisation, web scraping, machine learning, text analysis, and reproducible reporting. For graduate sociology and social science students.
- 2021/22GraduateFaculty of Croatian Studies, ZagrebMaterials →
Computational approaches to social media data. Platform-specific analysis (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn), data infrastructure, statistical methods, and open-source analytics tools.
- 2021/22GraduateFaculty of Croatian Studies, ZagrebMaterials →
Computational text analysis from data preparation through NLP. Dictionary methods, supervised and unsupervised machine learning, topic modelling, and text clustering in R.
- 2020/21UGFaculty of Croatian Studies, ZagrebMaterials →
R programming, descriptive statistics, data visualisation, hypothesis testing, categorical analysis, ANOVA, and linear regression for undergraduate social science students.
Workshops
I run analytics workshops for institutions and organisations, including the Economic Institute Zagreb. Topics include applied econometrics, machine learning for non-specialists, and data-driven decision-making. Get in touch at luka.sikic@unicath.hr to discuss.