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author: Christopher Nam | ||
date: "2024-07-08" | ||
description: About Me | ||
title: About Me | ||
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<div id="my-professional-background" class="section level1"> | ||
<h1>My Professional Background</h1> | ||
<p>I obtained a PhD in Statistics from the University of Warwick in 2013, my thesis title was <em>“Uncertainty in Changepoints in Time Series”</em> <a href="#fn1" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref1"><sup>1</sup></a>. I’m delighted that Dr Little Alex Horne recently became associated with my alma mater through the <a href="https://taskmastereducation.com/news/dr-little-alex-horne">Taskmaster Education</a> scheme.</p> | ||
<p>I have 10 years of industry experience as a Research Scientist/Data Scientist at Amazon and Samsung, predominantly demand forecasting at scale for products. From this experience, I have some experience on running projects at scale, with rigor (automation, repeatability) and compromises that need to be made (whether it be technical, monetary, mental).</p> | ||
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<div id="my-personal-motivation" class="section level1"> | ||
<h1>My Personal Motivation</h1> | ||
<p>There are a variety of personal reasons why I am starting <em>The Median Duck</em>.</p> | ||
<p>Perhaps optimistically, I want to (stealthy) educate others of analytics to the general public in a fun and amusing manner. Statistics is not taught particularly well in the UK, often seen as a boring number crunching and often a medium to lie. Add to this, I want to instill best practices and the graft work that I have experienced over my years, and that are often overlooked in courses and textbooks (importance of good quality data, automated workflows, etc.).</p> | ||
<p>I made the somewhat brave decision to become self employed at the start of 2024, and have various ventures in the work to provide some income and keep me entertained on a daily basis (piano teaching, piano performance, admin for my housing association). The Median Duck is one of these ventures.</p> | ||
<p>I don’t expect this venture to be a money maker (major or minor), but I do want to retain my engagement in the data science and statistics field. Add to this, my “imposter syndrome” often wants me to relearn the basics.</p> | ||
<p>I do have some aspirations to potentially go into data journalism through data science and analytics and this venture may provide some experience and build up a portfolio of work.</p> | ||
<p>Finally, I do not claim to be a full expert and entirely knowledgeable about the analysis I will be covering<a href="#fn2" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref2"><sup>2</sup></a>. However I’m always eager to learn new topics and also educate others; I believe I am an educator and teacher at my core. My passion for Taskmaster and prior experience with the analytics field thus makes <em>The Median Duck</em> this the ideal vehicle.</p> | ||
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<div id="my-taskmaster-journey" class="section level1"> | ||
<h1>My Taskmaster Journey</h1> | ||
<p>My Taskmaster journey properly started during 2020 (and the global pandemic), when the Series 2 task “order something without using certain words” was recommended to me on YouTube. Once I watched this task, I was hooked and consequently went down the Taskmaster rabbit hole and binged whatever series were available.</p> | ||
<p>However, prior to this, I was initially quite dismissive of Taskmaster. I had previously associated “Taskmaster” with “Ticketmaster” and thus erroneously thought it was going to be a dull show in which extortionate ticket scalping would occur. How wrong I was…</p> | ||
<p>Since 2020, I have watched each series of Taskmaster (mainly UK) near the time of broadcast, and consumed Taskmaster adjacent material (the podcast, comedians appearances on other comedy shows etc.).</p> | ||
<p>I have also unofficially (and jokingly) assigned myself the title of <em>“Taskmaster Representative of the Pacific Northwest”</em> as I have referred numerous friends and colleagues about Taskmaster and also informed them of when the next series is broadcasting.</p> | ||
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<div id="these-are-a-few-of-my-favourite-taskmaster-things" class="section level1"> | ||
<h1>These are a Few of My Favourite Taskmaster Things…</h1> | ||
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<li><strong>Favourite Task:</strong> Ringtone Choreography (S4E4)</li> | ||
<li><strong>Favourite Series:</strong> Series 4 or 5.</li> | ||
<li><strong>Favourite Contestant:</strong> Victoria Coren Mitchell<a href="#fn3" class="footnote-ref" id="fnref3"><sup>3</sup></a></li> | ||
<li><strong>Favourite Quote(s):</strong> “Friendship is Truth”</li> | ||
<li><strong>Degrees of Separation to Alex Horne (to my knowledge):</strong> 3</li> | ||
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<div class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"> | ||
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<li id="fn1"><p>I’m sure you eager readers can find my thesis online and be gently amused by my chapter quotes.<a href="#fnref1" class="footnote-back">↩︎</a></p></li> | ||
<li id="fn2"><p>This is the <a href="https://www.webmd.com/balance/what-is-imposter-syndrome">Imposter Syndrome</a> talking for the most part…<a href="#fnref2" class="footnote-back">↩︎</a></p></li> | ||
<li id="fn3"><p>Fun fact: I actively squealed when VCM was announced. She’s a fascinating person with extremely varied career (to name a few: author, broadcaster/presenter, professional player, pornographer, former stand up comedian, customised inhaler trendsetter…)<a href="#fnref3" class="footnote-back">↩︎</a></p></li> | ||
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date: "2019-05-28" | ||
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author: Christopher Nam | ||
date: "2024-07-04" | ||
description: Resources | ||
title: Resources | ||
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<p><img src="../img/vintage_reading_duck.jpg" style="width:25.0%" /></p> | ||
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<p>Here are some of the resources I used as part of <em>The Median Duck</em>.</p> | ||
<p>(I will tabulate and automate this eventually).</p> | ||
<div id="taskmaster-related" class="section level1"> | ||
<h1>Taskmaster Related</h1> | ||
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<li><a href="https://taskmaster.info/">TaskMaster.Info</a></li> | ||
<li><a href="https://tdlm.fly.dev/">Trabajo de las Mesas</a></li> | ||
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<div id="website-related" class="section level1"> | ||
<h1>Website Related</h1> | ||
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<li><a href="https://feathericons.com/">Feather Icons</a></li> | ||
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<div id="statistics-related" class="section level1"> | ||
<h1>Statistics Related</h1> | ||
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<div id="misc-related" class="section level1"> | ||
<h1>Misc Related</h1> | ||
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author: Christopher Nam | ||
date: "2024-07-04" | ||
description: The Median Duck Vision | ||
title: The Vision | ||
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<div id="the-mission-statement" class="section level1"> | ||
<h1>The Mission Statement</h1> | ||
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<p>To entertain and educate the general public of statistical and analytical concepts through data associated with the hit UK TV show “Taskmaster”.</p> | ||
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<div id="the-objective" class="section level1"> | ||
<h1>The Objective</h1> | ||
<p>Using data from the UK hit TV show <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskmaster_(TV_series)">“Taskmaster”</a>, <em>The Median Duck</em> aims to entertain and educate the general public of statistical and analytical concepts. Articles and analysis will be written for a non-technical audience predominantly.</p> | ||
<p>Types of analysis and content fall under the following umbrellas with some examples.</p> | ||
<p>The various datasets, code snippets and analysis will be open source on this git repo, such that others are able to reproduce it at their own pace, and contribute to the project.</p> | ||
<div id="exploratory-analysis" class="section level2"> | ||
<h2>Exploratory Analysis</h2> | ||
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<p>Based on existing series and historical data, what insights can we gleam.</p> | ||
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<p>Examples: | ||
- Do older contestants fair better on the show? Is there a correlation between series ranking and age of contestant? | ||
- Has Greg been harsher as the show has progressed along? | ||
- Was Sally Phillips better at creative tasks, than objective tasks on average? | ||
- Existing analysis that you have performed thus far would fall into this category.</p> | ||
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<div id="predictive-analysis" class="section level2"> | ||
<h2>Predictive Analysis</h2> | ||
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<p>Based on existing series and historical data, can we make a prediction on an outcome. The outcome will be realised eventually, and we can compare our prediction to the observed outcome to see how (in)accurate we were.</p> | ||
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<p>Examples: | ||
- Prior to a series starting, can we predict who is likely to win the series? What are the probabilities (odds) of each contestant winning? | ||
- As the series progresses and we start to see actual contestant performance, how do these odds change?</p> | ||
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<div id="hypothetical-analysis" class="section level2"> | ||
<h2>Hypothetical Analysis</h2> | ||
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<p>Based on existing data, can we make a hypothesise as to what an outcome may be. The outcome will not be realised (or at least very low probability), and we thus can’t compare our hypothesised prediction to reality.</p> | ||
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<p>Examples: | ||
- Would Katherine Ryan still have won her series if it was a 10 episode series, rather than 5 episodes? | ||
- What would be the outcome of a hypothetical series featuring Ed Gamble, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Nish Kumar, Josh Widdicombe and Sally Phillips?</p> | ||
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<div id="game-theory-and-strategy" class="section level2"> | ||
<h2>Game Theory and Strategy</h2> | ||
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<p>Based on existing literature, what is a optimal way to succeed in a task.</p> | ||
</blockquote> | ||
<p>Examples: | ||
- What is the optimal strategy in Series 13’s “Guess Shoe” task? | ||
- What is the optimal strategy in Series 4’s “Draw the median duck” task? | ||
- What is the optimal strategy in Series 13’s “Give Alex a high-five. The third-fastest high-fiver wins.” task?</p> | ||
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<div id="final-thoughts" class="section level1"> | ||
<h1>Final Thoughts</h1> | ||
<p>This vision is ambitious and I’m not entirely sure if I can pull it all (or any) of it off. However, in the spirit of Taskmaster, I am willing to give it a try, and potentially make a fool out of myself as I succeed or fail.</p> | ||
<p>I’m hoping that documenting this vision will also inspire others to contribute and collaborate on the project in the future.</p> | ||
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