Shubham's personal web page http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog Reflections on my career path and development as a data scientist - I recently switched jobs from Reaktor to Nightingale Health, a young Finnish company dedicated to solving chronic diseases with the help of a novel blood screening technology. Leaving Reaktor’s exceptional working culture wasn’t easy, but the chance to tackle some of the biggest problems in healthcare with data was simply... Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2017/11/12/career-moves.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2017/11/12/career-moves.html The final act of my academic career (at least for now) - I’m co-authoring a new paper titled “A transcriptomics data-driven gene space accurately predicts liver cytopathology and drug-induced liver injury”, published in July in Nature Communications. This work was included as a manuscript in my doctoral thesis and I’m extremely happy to see it finally published in a high-profile journal with... Mon, 14 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2017/08/14/predictive-toxicogenomics-paper.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2017/08/14/predictive-toxicogenomics-paper.html My take on the role of algorithms in influencing election behaviour - Did algorithms help Trump and Brexit to win? This question is on everyone’s lips after the issue was surfaced by Swiss journalists. The news basically claimed that Trump’s campaign used highly sophisticated algorithms, offered by a UK-based company Cambridge Analytica, to influence the voting behaviour of millions of Americans, based... Wed, 01 Mar 2017 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2017/03/01/personaldata-ai.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2017/03/01/personaldata-ai.html A Discussion on Problems and Solutions for Ethical Use of Data - With the growing use of data-intensive services and the central role of data in running businesses and government, also the dark side of data is becoming increasingly evident. Issues with secure data collection and storage, privacy-preserving data usage and unintended consequences of algorithms running wild have been surfacing regularly. Leaks... Wed, 21 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2016/12/21/data-ethics.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2016/12/21/data-ethics.html Recap From MyData2016 Conference - We are living in the Information Age, where things that we make and consume are mostly information, and more information is available to everyone than ever before. Modern information technology brings the relevant information to our reach at the right time. For example, moving around in a city has become... Wed, 19 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2016/10/19/mydata2016-opendata-mobility-energy.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2016/10/19/mydata2016-opendata-mobility-energy.html Trust Beats Big Data When it Comes to Personalization - This post was originally published in Reaktor’s blog and it continues on the MyData theme. It’s good to be back in action after a half-year blogging silence. I’m also really excited about the Mydata 2016 conference next week, where I’ll be hosting a session titled “Challenges in Big / Small... Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2016/08/25/mydata2016-personalisation.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2016/08/25/mydata2016-personalisation.html Modelling and visualising open apartment price data with R - With all the data science and big data hype going on it’s always nice to see real case examples. At Reaktor we have created Kannattaakokauppa.fi, a probabilistic modeling-based interactive visualisation of regional apartment price trends in Finland. The service shows the predicted price levels and trends for year 2017, and... Tue, 08 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2016/03/08/apartment-price-model.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2016/03/08/apartment-price-model.html Introduction to Probabilistic Programming and Stan - The choice of tools in practical data science projects is often restricted into ones that are easy and fast to implement and that work efficiently. Traditionally this has ruled out for example most Bayesian data analysis techniques, as they involve laborious statistical inference procedures. This is about to change with... Tue, 09 Feb 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2016/02/09/probabilistic-programming.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2016/02/09/probabilistic-programming.html Recap of the data science scene in Finland in 2015 - The data science scene in Finland has been growing well in the recent years. Here’s a recap of the data science events and other stuff in Finland that hit my radar during 2015. If you think something important is missing, please add a comment! Meetups The first public data science... Mon, 11 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2016/01/11/finland-datascience-2016.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2016/01/11/finland-datascience-2016.html BioIT Alumniweekend: From Data to Health - Healthcare sector is undergoing dramatic changes enabled by new digital technologies. One key question for the future of healthcare is how personal health data, including existing health records and also data from modern wellbeing sensors and activity trackers, can be taken into more effective use. There is for example increasing... Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/11/03/bioit-health-data.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/11/03/bioit-health-data.html MyData redefines the way personal data is managed and used - The rise of big data has brought personal data collections, such as customer registers, mobile communication data, and health records, into the interest of the whole business world. When viewed as big data - often called the new oil - personal data is considered as a kind of natural resource,... Tue, 20 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/10/20/mydata-bigdata-human-side.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/10/20/mydata-bigdata-human-side.html Notes form the 1st International Conference on Computational Social Science - Data science is spreading throughout business sectors and research fields. Computational social sciences is a field that “leverages the capacity to collect and analyze data at a scale that may reveal patterns of individual and group behaviors”. This is highly interesting and not too far from many business-oriented data science... Fri, 25 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/09/25/compsocsci-finland.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/09/25/compsocsci-finland.html Twitter streamgraphs for the 10-year-old think tank - The first independent think tank in Finland, Demos Helsinki, turned 10 years last week (more in this post in Fnnish). I have had the pleasure of working with this great group of talented and insightful people, and I wanted to congratulate them on their anniversary. So I made these streamgraphs... Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/09/16/demos-helsinki-streamgraphs.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/09/16/demos-helsinki-streamgraphs.html How to make a streamgraph with R from Twitter hashtags - I was exploring ways to visualize my Twitter history, and ended up creating this interactive streamgraph of my 20 most used hashtags in Twitter: The graph shows how my Twitter activity has varied a lot. The top three hashtags are #datascience, #rstats and #opendata (no surprises there). There are also... Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/08/31/twitter-streamgraph.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/08/31/twitter-streamgraph.html Changed website and blog to use the Beautiful Jekyll theme - My old website and blog theme had been feeling kind of outdated for a while. When I bumped into the nice, mobile-friendly Beautiful Jekyll theme by Dean Attali, it was clear that I needed to change my site. After a busy summer with my family I finally found the time... Fri, 07 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/08/07/website-update.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/08/07/website-update.html On responsibility of data scientists over the algorithms they create - With big data comes big responsibility! But can the data scientists step up and take responsibility of the algorithms they have released? The amount and variety of data-driven applications is increasing rapidly from industrial solutions to practical ones affecting our daily lives. Concerns have been raised about how algorithms rule... Wed, 17 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/06/17/datascience-responsibility.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/06/17/datascience-responsibility.html Recap of my guest lecture on data science at Tampere University of Technology - I had the pleasure to give a guest lecture on data science at Tampere University of Technology yesterday. I was invidited by my friend Jukka Huhtamäki to give a lecture on Programmatic Content Management course (description in Finnish). This was my first full-scale lecture, so it was a very exciting... Wed, 29 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/04/29/tty-datascience-lecture.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/04/29/tty-datascience-lecture.html My personal attempt to define a data scientist - Data science has recently emerged as an interdisciplinary field with a fair amount of hype around it. It has been declared as the sexiest job of the 21st century and the salaries of data scientists have skyrocketed. However, there still is not a good overall definition for data science, so... Mon, 02 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/02/02/data-science-definition.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/02/02/data-science-definition.html Collection of best of 2014 links related to data science, statistics and infovis - Here’s a collection of the best data science -related link collections from 2014. Data science and statistics Revolution Analytics - Happy New Year! A look at the top posts from 2014. Simply Statistics - A non-comprehensive list of awesome things other people did in 2014 R-bloggers - Top 77 R... Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/01/13/bestof-2014.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2015/01/13/bestof-2014.html Slush 2014 from the data science point of view - Slush, the biggest startup conference in Northern Europe, was held last week in Helsinki. I participated the event second time, and here I share some highlights especially from the data science point of view. To get an idea of what the startups were offering, I made the following word cloud... Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:00:00 +0000 http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2014/12/05/slush2014-data.html http://shubhamgoel27.github.io/blog/blog/2014/12/05/slush2014-data.html