About

Hi! I’m Fung YIP, an Econometrician turned Data Scientist with a strong passion of predictive analytics using Algorithmic / Statistical Modelling applied into real-world situations.

I love data blend in with iChing 《易經》, discovering the nature way harmoniously flowing to ‘Yin’ & ‘Yang’ 《陰陽》, establishing the Law of Cause and Effect 《因果關係》 and expressing way of simplicity through Data [0,1] Dao 《易數道》.

This blog will showcase some of the analyses I have been working using R or Python.

Econometrics

Econometrics for me is like ”love at first sight”. I was first introduced by my classmate at uni that there is a thingy called “Econ” “Metric” when I was doing my Economics degree. My first regression model to build was to predict the price of meat, which is fabulous.

I continued to study Masters in Economics whose syllabus was heavily involved in statistical modelling. This enables me to build a strong foundation on the mathematical side in which I can ride on it to life-learn machine learning.

Business Intelligence

I fist cut my teeth on Business Intelligence from work - building a set of KPIs to monitor company’s performance. This field has evolved a lot both in technology and usage wise. Tools itself which becomes more intelligent are moving towards user-centric with strong emphasis of Data viz.

I feel great that I have opportunities to use both Tableau and Qliksense to apply in cooperate environment, the latter of which includes good ETL capability and now I really fall in love.

Data Science

Data Scientist is the most sexiest job of the 21st century. That said, I don’t feel like I am sexy at all. This field has evolved amazingly fast and I expect this term data science will be replaced by AI or other synonyms terms in the coming years. I use R a lot, making use of tidyverse concept and now increasingly use Python for analyses.

As I am Econometrician turned Data Scientist, I love Time Series forecasting a lot. I ‘kaizen’ to learn other type of machine learning to add my Data Science arsenal.

DataiChing

iChing is also known as Classic of Changes. Just like Confucius says,

“If Heaven gave me another 50 years to live, I would spend them studying iChing and perhaps then I would beware myself of troubles.”

Confucius wishes he has more time to learn iChing and dedicated himself to it. For me same same - Data & iChing will be my lifetime project to blend two 2gether.

Disclaimer

The is my personal project done in my spare time. The views and opinions expressed here are mine alone and do not represent the views of my previous or current employers.