HI!
I'm a McGill Civil Engineering graduate working as a data analyst in Montréal. This is my space where I share my work, photography, art and thoughts. I spend most of my time doing data projects, reading old Sci-Fi novels, dabbling in film photography and occasionally strumming on stringed instruments. I'm always looking out for a new project to tackle so if you want to work on something, take photos or talk books get in touch!
Shoot me an email at usamah.khan@gmail.com, tweet me over @usamahkhanmtl or to see more of what I'm up to, check about me!
Projects
This summer I worked with the IoT visionaries at Thingful conducting data science and machine learning experiments to see how Thingful, with it's repositories of millions of sensors around the world, might 'fill in the gaps' of 'missing' data to create 'virtual sensors'
In early 2015, I discovered Talend, a simple to use open-source Extract Transform and Load (ETL) tool. I collected so much information while figuring it out that I still use it to help me on my own projects. I put a "How-To" together of what I know that hopefully could be of use to others.
The Human Activity Recognition Project (HAR) put together a study placing accelerometers on 6 participants. They were asked to lift the weights correctly and incorrectly and the goal was to examine how well an exercise was being performed. This project creates and contrasts Machine Learning techniques in R to determine the answers.
Blog
Photography
Books
Social
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This is awesome! Great to see a spotlight on these countries https://t.co/KrrURvDE5L
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RT @sjl: “If you feel nothing when you click the shutter, you give the viewer nothing to respond to..." - Fan Ho https://t.co/ee0im7eXOr
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RT @simongerman600: This #dataviz overview table is used by the @FT team to decide which visualization to use. It's a handy starting po… https://t.co/knfqSVrcfK
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RT @elonmusk: Few people know that we started Tesla when GM forcibly recalled all electric cars from customers in 2003 & then crushed them in a junkyard
Last year, I worked on a project analyzing data from Thingful’s repositories in an effort to predict “missing data”. I got the chance to reconnect with Umbrellium to tackle a new challenge in IoT this time tackling Air Quality specifically and incorporating the use of wearables and our own data sources.