Biography

Philip is a data scientist with a major commercial bank in Malaysia, with experience in applied microeconometrics, machine learning and technical writing. He occassionally contributes to open-source projects such as the conda-forge software distribution project. He is package maintainer of the R package bnmr and an author of pmdplyr, and volunteers for PyData Kuala Lumpur.

Interests

  • Data Visualization
  • Causal Inference
  • Machine Learning

Education

  • Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), 2017

    University of Wollongong

  • Bachelor of Commerce (Dean's Scholar), 2014 - 2016

    University of Wollongong

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Skills

R

Data wrangling using tidyverse packages

Statistics

Python

Machine learning in scikit-learn and Keras

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Data Scientist

Mar 2020 – Present Kuala Lumpur
 
 
 
 
 

Technical Writer

Oct 2019 – Dec 2019 George Town, Penang
Developing product documentation, developing deep learning deployment use cases and providing editorial assistance
 
 
 
 
 

Data Scientist Intern

GRID Inc.

May 2019 – Aug 2019 Shibuya, Tokyo
Building object detection models using deep learning algorithms for agricultural applications
 
 
 
 
 

Data Scientist Associate

The Center of Applied Data Science

Jul 2018 – May 2019 Kerinchi, Kuala Lumpur
Design and deliver data science training courses specializing in R Programming, statistics, Microsoft Excel and data visualization.
 
 
 
 
 

Research Assistant

Penang Institute

Aug 2016 – Mar 2017 George Town, Penang
Assisted with primary and secondary research to identify skill gaps and skill shortages in Penang with the Penang Skilled Workforce Study.

Recent Posts

WSL2 and R

Why and how to use R from WSL2.
Last updated on Aug 27, 2020 2 min read
WSL2 and R

Charts can lie

It’s not cool if your chart’s designed to mislead, YB.
Last updated on Oct 14, 2019 4 min read

Learning to sell data science

Half of your job, regardless of what that job is, is being able to sell your work.
Last updated on Aug 7, 2019 5 min read
Learning to sell data science

Link functions matter

Benchmarking different link functions
Last updated on Jul 14, 2019 5 min read

Reflections on the tidyverse

Why I like (and use) the tidyverse
Last updated on Jul 7, 2019 8 min read R
Reflections on the tidyverse
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Projects

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An Analysis of The Gender Wage Gap In Australia
bnmr
Family background and child health: the role of socioeconomic status and skills
Health and wealth: economic growth with endogenous health and human capital
The Global Halal Industry in Malaysia and Penang
TPPA Perspective: Economic Indicators of Penang
An analysis of the TPPA

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