About this blog
I created this blog to showcase some of the applications of data science techniques and tools that are available - for free!
About me
I’m currently employed as the Data and Systems Manager at West London Zone. I’ve previously worked at children’s charity The Smith Family in Australia. I also spent six years as an academic at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, where I also completed my PhD in Social Policy in 2013, and conducted research into a range of social policy issues including child and youth wellbeing, grandparental care, and poverty.
In my day-to-day, I do a lot coding in R, whether it’s creating visualisations with ggplot2, designing and maintaining our shiny dashboards, writing reports with R Markdown, or just conducting analyses utilising the many awesome R packages that are out there.
Besides R, I am an intermediate user of the javascript library d3, and an advanced Excel user.