Ryan Edwards
Ryan has a passion for data analytics from his studies, having attained a double degree in Accounting, Finance and Computer Science at the University of Auckland. He moved to Sydney from New Zealand to experience a new country and culture, but most of all, he wanted to apply his degree in a practical environment. Ryan has previously lived in Shanghai and Shenzhen, where he has worked in the high tech industry and received the Prime Minister’s Scholarship for Asia. His hobbies include outdoor rock climbing, running marathons and going on adventures – Ryan has run a marathon on the Great Wall of China.
Quick Tip: Missing Time Series Data
"Lost time is never found again." – Benjamin Franklin. So said the man on the US $100 bill. Fortunately, a lot has changed since the 18th century, including the ability to find lost time in time series data. In the first of my new quick tip series, we'll look at how...
Finding a Dataset
Are you trying to find your ideal dataset? Finding a nice dataset is a bit like finding an in vogue restaurant for a date. Here I'll discuss some of the familiar places myself and the other data schoolers use, as well as my thoughts on the newly available...
Feature Engineering – Cyclical Variables
What's the difference between 23 and 1? If we're talking about time, it's 2. A cyclical variable is a fancy name for a feature that repeats cyclically. I'll write a future blog post on the importance of feature engineering, but in short, it aims to improve the...
Who is Frank Benford and How to Detect Fraud with Tableau
Let's play a game - I predict your home address begins with the number 1, 2 or 3. If we made this a betting game and I had enough readers, I'd be filthy rich. Not because I'm lucky, but because I have a 60.2% of being right. Yes, almost double the more intuitive 33.3%...