About me
Nicholas Spyrison is a statistician at International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF). He earned his PhD from Monash University, Australia in 2022, where he multivariate data visualization and its application to Explainable AI. Publication domains include statistics, medical sciences, and condensed mater physics. In his free time, Nicholas enjoys a good coffee, comedy, and discussing science and philosophy.
Nicholas is the author two R packages, spinifex and cheem. Spinifex implements user-control of the basis in animated linear projections. Cheem uses this visualization method to explore the interpretability of machine learning models. His thesis is titled Interactive and dynamic visualization of high-dimensional data.
| Package | CRAN | Pkgdown | Shiny app | GitHub |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| spinifex | Link | Documentation | Application | Code |
| cheem | Link | Documentation | Application | Code |
Ph.D. research was conducted in collaboration with Professor Dianne Cook and Professor Kim Marriott.
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Interests
- Machine learning
- Dimension reduction
- Multivariate data visualization
- Exploratory data analysis
- Futurology & human progress
Education
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Ph.D. in Information Technology/Statistics, 2022
Monash University
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BSc. in Statistics, 2012
Iowa State University