You have reached the personal webpage of Dr. Nathaniel Phillips. I am a data and decision scientist who uses data and analytics to enable informed decisions.
I completed a PhD in experimental psychology with a focus on cognitive models of decision making at the University of Basel, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of Social Psychology and Decision Sciences at the University of Konstanz and the Economic Psychology department at the University of Basel.
I am currently working as a data scientist in the Personalised Healthcare department at Roche.
I am also the co-founder of the Basel R Bootcamp, a organization that teaches novice and experienced programmers alike the joys of the R programming language. To learn more about me, my book YaRrr! The Pirate’s Guide to R, tutorials, R packages, or to check out my blog, click one of the buttons in the Navigation bar.
12 August Blog Post: New blog post on three updates to the FFTrees universe Simplicity matters - 3 updates to the FFTrees universe
www.shinyfftrees.org: I am happy to announce a Shiny version of FFTrees called ShinyFFTrees available at www.shinyfftrees.org. ShinyFFTrees allows you to use almost all of the functionality of the FFTrees package entirely in a web-browser. You can even upload and model your own data.
FFTrees JDM Publication. Our FFTrees manuscript titled FFTrees: A toolbox to create, visualize, and evaluate fast-and-frugal decision trees is live at the Society for Judgment and Decision Making Journal webpage.
In September I will be co-organizing an intensive 4 day workshop on R called The R Bootcamp in Basel with my long-time colleague Dr. Dirk Wulff. The purpose of the course is to give people with little to no R experience all the tools they need to start their R journey. Cost and registration information is available at our website www.rbootcamp.com
This week at the useR! conference in Brussels I will be giving a talk on my package FFTrees that makes it easy for anyone to create, visualize and evaluate fast-and-frugal decision trees. Check out this link to see the abstract and the video link to see the full presentation.
I am happy to announce that our paper titled FFTrees: A toolbox to create, visualize, and evaluate fast-and-frugal decision trees has been accepted and is currently in press at the journal of Judgment and Decision Making! I will post a link to the final draft of the paper as soon as it is available (probably in mid-July).