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Fred (Lefan) Cheng

Fred (Lefan) Cheng

Fred Cheng is a certified data scientist who is working as a data science consultant in Zenon. He owns a Master’s Degree in Management and Systems from New York University with a bachelor’s in business management from The Chinese University of Hongkong. He has 3+ years of data science and financial experience across investment banking and commercial banking. He is currently looking for a role in the financial and technology fields.

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Machine Learning

Machine Learning - Predicting Housing Prices in Ames, Iowa

by Fred (Lefan) Cheng, Paul Dingus, Wenjun Ma and Haoyun ZHANG
Feb 7, 2020
Project Code | Presentation | Slides Introduction "Housing - humanity's simple, yet complex and timeless paradigm. Families and individuals, buyers...
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Data Visualization

R Shiny - Exploring Global Plastic Pollution

by Fred (Lefan) Cheng
Feb 6, 2020
R shiny | Project Code | Linkedin | Github | Presentations | Email: [email protected] Introduction ​Click here to check my R shiny. “The global plastic production has mushroomed...
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Alumni

IEEE-CIS Fraud Detection - Detecting Fraud from Customer Transactions

by Fred (Lefan) Cheng
Feb 3, 2020
Project Code | Linkedin | Github | Presentations | Email: [email protected] Introduction Last year, I went on a trip to Colombia...
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Student Works

Web Scraping - Uncovering Predictors of Netflix Paid Membership from Netflix Originals

by Fred (Lefan) Cheng
Feb 1, 2020
Project Code | Linkedin | Github | Presentation | Slides | Email: [email protected] Introduction and Motivation Netflix is a fantastic company. Its shares have...
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Capstone

Kaggle Fraud Detection

by Jose Gonzalez, Luke Gray, Rajesh Earlu, Fred (Lefan) Cheng and Alyssa Wei
Oct 31, 2019
As a group we completed the IEEE-CIS (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) Fraud Detection competition on Kaggle....
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