Data Science and Machine Learning

Medium / Towards Data Science Writer (2024-)

As of August 2024 I’ve started creating articles for Towards Data Science on my Medium page:

Public Talks

🧠🧹 Causality — Mental Hygiene for Data Science

Presented in:

  • PyData Global: 2024-12-04

➡️ Start Asking Your Data “Why?” — A Gentle Intro To Causality

Presented in:

  • Royal Statistical Society International Conference 2024-10-05
  • PyData Global: 2021-10-28, 2022-12-01
  • EuroPython: 2021-07-29
  • Data Idols Summer 2022-08-02

🛑 Don’t Stop ‘til You Get Enough - Hypothesis Testing Stop Criterion with “Precision Is The Goal”

Presented in:

  • Royal Statistical Society International Conference 2024-10-05 (poster format)
  • PyData London 2022-07-19
  • PyData Global 2021-12-02

Slides:

Poster:

Cosmology

As an academic researcher I’ve published five peer-reviewed articles in cosmology as lead contributor resulting in over 940 citations to date (2024-12; Google Scholar).

Improved distance measurements to z=1 with reconstruction of the baryonic acoustic feature

Kazin et al. (2014)

We demonstrate on real and simulated data that by using velocity fields to shift galaxies to their near-original positions one obtains more accurate estimates of dark matter and dark energy. Cited 420 times (132 since 2019).

Wach presentation in Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics Oslo from 2014-05-20.

Or watch on YouTube

The baryonic acoustic feature and large-scale clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey luminous red galaxy sample

Kazin et al. (2010)

By using simulations we demonstrate that an apparent abnormality in the real galaxy 2-point clustering is likely to be due to cosmic variance rather than “new physics”. Cited 296 times (38 since 2019).