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Council Libraries

In this audit, we used data envelopment analysis to investigate the efficiencies of council libraries. The inputs included library FTE and collection size, a...

Bootstrap for finite populations

I find bootstrapping to be one of the most general and useful statistical techniques in my toolbox. In the paper below, the method is extended to finite popu...

Commando python envs

Just a quick note on my approach to environments for data analytics (without undies). Here I’m using Python, Jupyter, and Conda, but the approach could be ad...

Portfolio of work with Australia Post

Australia Post is a huge and hugely complicated organisation. They have amazing data (variety, volume, velocity, …) and to be honest, I was still getting my ...