About

This is the personal writings of Edward Ross; Data Scientist, Writer and Learner.

Things I’ve built

• Whatcar.xyz a Deep Learning classifier for Australian cars (inference source).
• A system for extracting and cleaning Australian job ads from Common Crawl.

Things I’ve written about

I like to write lots of small articles on skeptric.com.

• Calculating Moving Averages in SQL
• Searching Common Crawl with CDX
• Searching common Crawl with Athena
• Finding near duplicates with Minhash
• Calculating the Centroid on a Spherical Polygon
• Constant models as baselines for predictive modelling

Things I’ve worked through

I sometimes keep examples of tutorials and books I’ve worked through

• Computational Exercises from All of Statistics by Larry Wasserman
• Exercises from Regression and Other Stories
• Baking Pi Tutorial for building a Baremetal OS on Raspberry Pi
• Some NLP algorithms inspired bu Jurefsky’s Speech and Language Processing, 3rd edition

Contact

You can email me at webmaster@skeptric.com