Gabors Data Analysis and AI Lab

Creating innovative open-source educational resources and supporting research in data analysis, data science, and AI for economics and social sciences.

About

Gabors Data Analysis and AI Lab is a research and education initiative housed within the Economics Department of Central European University. The lab brings together economists, quantitative social scientists, and data science professionals.

Our mission is “Creating innovative open-source educational resources and supporting research in data analysis, data science, and AI for economics and social sciences.”

The lab serves as a bridge between academia and business, and between research and teaching. We create high-quality and innovative teaching materials for data analysis and econometrics and support data sciene and AI intensive research projects in economics and social sciences.

The lab was founded by Gábor Békés (CEU, Austria; KRTK, Hungary and CEPR, UK) and Gábor Kézdi (formerly: Corvinus, CEU, KRTK and U Michigan, USA)

What we do

Our work centers on developing comprehensive educational resources tied to the Data Analysis for Business, Economics, and Policy textbook ecosystem. We create and maintain open-source code repositories, setup documentation, case studies, and practice materials, alongside instructor dashboards (dashboards.gabors-data-analysis.com) that support teaching worldwide. We launched an innovative Data Analysis with AI course reflecting our commitment to integrating artificial intelligence into quantitative education and research support. All our materials are free and open-source. We train the next generation of applied data analysts: our research assistants and associates launch careers as data scientists in business, pursue PhDs, or conduct policy research.

For more details, see our projetcs

Where we are

We work in Vienna (AT), Budapest (HU) and online.

We are at LinkedIn

Staff

Senior staff

• Gábor Békés (CEU, Austria; KRTK, Hungary and CEPR, UK) , Managing Director

Board of directors

• Eduardo Ariño de la Rubia (CEU, ex-Meta / Facebook)

Current analysts and associates

• Daniel Barabás, associate
• Márton Nagy, analyst
• Tatyana Yakushina, analyst

Alumni

• Endre Borza (Research Data Engineer, Corvinus Uni, Hungary)
• Kenneth Colombe (Phd Student, Bonn, Germany)
• János Divényi (Data scientist, SAP, Budapest)
• Zsuzsa Holler (Data scientist, SAS, Hungary)
• Zsóia Kőműves (Senior economist, Cambridge Econometrics, Hungary)
• Eszter Pázmándi (data scientist, Pepsico, Spain)
• Ágoston Reguly (Assistant Professor, Corvinus Uni, Hungary)
• Kinga Ritter (Data PM, Job and Talent, Spain)
• Zsuzsa Vadle (Phd Student, CEU, Austria)
• Ádám Víg (Data analyst/AI, Google, Hungary)

Partners

• CEU Department of Economics, funding since 2013
• CEU Teaching Development Grant, grant 2024
• Cambridge University Press, textbook publisher

Events

• Data Analystics in Business Jamboree, CEU 2025