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Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Economist at the Ministry of Health in the Primary Care Analytics team

Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Research Analyst at BC Stats

Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

Melbourne, Australia

Combining data science and sport science to identify technical and tactical determinants of success in women’s soccer. Analysing big data covering several seasons of 2 major leagues and WCs and ECs in R using multiple machine learning algorithms (e.g. decision tree, random forest, k-means). Skills learned include study design, data extraction, cleaning and wrangling, databases merging (tabular and XML), features engineering, resampling (10-fold CV), model training and testing, version control… Show more Combining data science and sport science to identify technical and tactical determinants of success in women’s soccer. Analysing big data covering several seasons of 2 major leagues and WCs and ECs in R using multiple machine learning algorithms (e.g. decision tree, random forest, k-means). Skills learned include study design, data extraction, cleaning and wrangling, databases merging (tabular and XML), features engineering, resampling (10-fold CV), model training and testing, version control of code (GitHub). Also, non-analytical skills such as project management from inception to finish, time management, decision making, rapport writing, leadership, and working independently. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

Working as a research assistant and tutoring in various subjects covering anatomy, physiology and research methods & statistics.

Melbourne, Australia

Taught for ten trimesters in various subjects covering anatomy, physiology and research methods & statistics.

Arnhem, The Netherlands

Sydney, Australia

Zeist, The Netherlands

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Sports Analytics

Master'S Honours Programme, Leadership: Making The Difference

Master Of Science (Ms), Sport Sciences

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Bewegingswetenschappen