Welcome!

Estadistika /estadistika/ is the Filipino word for Statistics and is one of the core topics of this blog. My name is Al-Ahmadgaid B. Asaad, AL for short --- Senior Data Scientist at Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. --- and I'm the author. Prior to joining Aboitiz, I spent two years as a Data Scientist at NeuralMechanics, Inc. and DiGenomiX, Inc.; and one-and-a-half years as Researcher and Statistical Specialist at Philippine Genome Center and Philippine Statistics Authority, respectively (see my LinkedIn profile for more details). Statistician by training with MSc in Statistics from University of the Philippines Diliman, specializing in the field of Bayesian inference for big data and its application to deep learning models, both for computer vision and natural language processing. I worked with Dr. Magadia on my thesis entitled Bayesian Autoregressive Distributed Lag via Stochastic Gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo.

Estadistika will serve as my notes for possible research I want to pursue in the future, and its main purpose is to share my thoughts about Statistics/Data Science, Machine/Deep Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. Needless to say, everything I post here represents my views and not the opinions of my employer.

Lastly, I am the owner of Analysis with Programming website, which I maintained from 2013 to 2017, and I made Estadistika as a successor to it. You can contact me at

alahmadgaid@gmail.com
or follow me on twitter @iamalstat. You can find me on github (@alstat) as well where most of my projects are hosted including this website.

Journal Publication

1. Asaad CO, Caraos GL, Robles GM, Asa AD, Cobar MC, Asaad A. Enhancing cytogenetic biological dosimetry capabilities of the philippines for nuclear incident preparedness. Genome Integr 2016;7:4.

Conference Papers

1. Asaad A., Salvacion A., Yen B.T. (2016). ALUES: R Package for Evaluating Land Suitability for Agricultural Production. 13th National Convention on Statistics - Philippine Statistics Authority, ISLA Ballroom, Edsa Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City.
2. Mapa C.D., Del Prado D.G, Poliquit I.A., Asaad A.. (2016). Enhancement of the Composite Leading Economic Indicator System of the Philippines. 13th National Convention on Statistics - Philippine Statistics Authority, ISLA Ballroom, Edsa Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City.
3. Mapa C.D., Del Prado D.G, Poliquit I.A., Asaad A.. (2016). Composite Leading Economic Indicators using Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model. 13th National Convention on Statistics - Philippine Statistics Authority, ISLA Ballroom, Edsa Shangri-La Hotel, Mandaluyong City.

Theses

1. Asaad A. (2017). Bayesian Autoregressive Distributed Lag via Stochastic Gradient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. Master's Thesis. School of Statistics, University of the Philippines Diliman.
2. Asaad A. (2013). Space-Time Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average. Undergraduate Thesis. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Iligan Institute of Technology of the Mindanao State University.