I use mathematical modelling and data analysis to discover and understand pertinent dynamics of the real-world. To ensure the maximum impact from these discoveries, I create interpretable and scientifically robust visuals.
Discovering new intuition
Mathematics is very old! It has always served as a tool to bring order and understanding to the real-world. In our current era of big data and high-powered computers there is a focus on data analytics, with hopes that analysis will lead to transformative decisions that improve efficiency, sustainability, resilience, productivity, inclusivity, etc. I argue that often these decisions were made based on expert intuition long before the data arrived. Therefore, prescriptive data analysis is a useful tool to support and further inform the status quo. However, translating the expert intuition into a logical framework is similar to developing a mathematical model. By building upon this logical framework, I believe that impactful data analysis provides new insights by quantifying nuances which were previously just out of reach of expert intuition.
Tamsin E. Lee 