Using ML to predict UK Winter severity
Using a variety of climate index data, I attempt to predict just how cold this winter will be in the UK with machine learning and statistics.
Date Posted: 11-Nov-2022
About Me
I'm an Irish national living in the UK. I started out my data career in Astronomy, where I focussed on exo-planetary systems (i.e. planets around other stars). I have two Masters degrees in Astronomy, one from the University of Groningen, Netherlands, and one from the University of Warwick, UK. Observational Astronomy is a data-rich field, which prepared me well for a career in Data Science. After university, I went to work in the water industry in the UK as the Senior Data Scientist, primarily building machine learning models to detect water leaks, progressing to Head of R&D and Data Analytics where I led a team of Data Scientists and Software Engineers to bring cutting edge ML products to the UK and international water industries. In 2023, I began working at Liberty Global Shared Services Centre as Data Science Manager, responsible for developing end-to-end technical solutions using GCP, educating the business on the capabilities of Data Science and ensuring Data was being leveraged appropriately. Recently, I began working as Data Science Manager at Asda in Leeds, UK.
Skills
Throughout my career, I have gained experience with technical product development, whether it be a data science, machine learning, or software product, as well as working with cross functional teams to deliver business value.
Additional Qualifications
- Project Management Communication, Stakeholders & Leadership from Coursera. Completed in 2023. (Syllabus)
- Executive Data Science Specialisation from Coursera. Completed in 2022. (Syllabus)
- Introduction to Agile Development and Scrum from Coursera. Completed in 2022. (Syllabus)
- Managing Remote Teams from M-Training. Completed in 2021. (Syllabus)
- APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) from The Knowledge Academy. Completed in 2020. (Syllabus)
- Inferential Statistical Analysis with Python from Coursera. Completed in 2019. (Syllabus)
- Machine Learning from Coursera. Completed in 2018. (Syllabus)
Projects
Below is a list of the various machine learning, data science and data visualisation project I've been working on.
Weather I/O
Weather I/O is a website I built in AWS to display UK rainfall accumulation data. Using open data from the UK Environment Agency, Weather I/O displays the geographic distribution of rainfall accumulation. After searching far and wide, I could not find any service that provided this data. So I decided to build it myself.
Date Posted: 17-Nov-2022
Customer Satisfaction Dashboard
Using data collected from Google Reviews, I examine the level of restaurant customer satisfaction across the UK using Tableau.
Date Posted: 15-Dec-2022
Forecasting UK Water Demand
Through a variety of techniques, I build a forecasting model to predict future water demand in the UK.
Date Posted: 21-Jan-2023
UK Used Car Price Prediction
Using GCP and a Random Forest Regressor, I built an application that can predict prices of used cars based on a variety of features.
Date Posted: 5-Aug-2023