Education
University of Waikato, Master of Science, 2007-2009
Awarded in Computer Science with Second Class, First Division, Honours
Thesis title - Prediction of Oestrus in Dairy Cows: An Application of Machine Learning to Skewed Data
- Working with a 3rd party to discuss ideas and share data
- Improved my academic researching/writing skills
- Learned the importance and application of techniques to detect and remove outlying data and deal with missing values, particularly with time series data
- Transformation of large unstructured database to formats more suitable to mining data
- Intimate exposure to data mining classifiers (J48 [C4.5], Naive Bayes, Averaged OneDependence Estimators, Logistic Regression, SupportVector Machines, Bagging, Random Forests, AdaBoostM1)
- Evaluation of techniques using performance metrics (ROC AUC and Precision-Recall)
- WEKA Machine Learning Toolkit
University of Waikato, Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, 2003-2006
Specified Program - Software Development
- Database Practice and Experience
- Information Discovery
- Advanced Communication and Network Systems
- Topics in Data Mining
- Topics in Software Engineering
- Software Design
Otumoetai College, School Certificate, Bursary, 2002
A Bursary
- Mathematics with Statistics
- Mathematics with Calculus
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Economics
- Classical Studies