Hi there! Welcome to my site!

I’m Niklas and I’m a Data Science enthusiast currently working in the fintech industry in Cape Town, South Africa.

I have an honours degree in Quantitative Finance and Statistics from the University of Cape Town. After graduating I joined a boutique asset management company as a Quant where I built financial models and strategies. In 2015 I did Andrew Ng’s Stanford Machine Learning course which sparked my interest in machine learning and initiated my journey to become a data scientist. In 2016 I joined Jumo.World as a Decision Scientist where I build predictive models for decisioning processes such as credit risk and fraud.

I have a strong interest in all things data/quantitative:

  • Machine Learning
  • Data science
  • R

I have been an avid R user for the last 10 years. I first learned to program in java as a youngster where I built basic computer games after school. At university I was introduced to R and then went on to teach it to students for the remainder of my degree.

Outside of data and R I am a keen road runner, participating in races in and around Cape Town up to half-marathon distance.

This site aims to share my adventures in data and coding.