Even though I’m a political scientist by education, I’ve always been fascinated by statistics, machine learning and computer science.
Currently I’m building predicive models for property valuation. I found myself not only intrigued by the analytical part of the project, but the implementation as well. Thus, lately I’ve been working on implementing these predicitve models in application software. Although R certainly has it’s strength as an analytical tool, I’ve found myself enjoying having to write production code in the R language as well.
Since I was originally merely an analyst, I do not detest the R language like most other developers.