Niral J Shah

Projects

Things I’ve built.

Lending software, language models, data pipelines and the odd side project, newest first. New ones are added as they ship.

  • Now / Built

    Creditcrest lending platform (opens in a new tab)

    Lending infrastructure for Australian credit providers — twenty-three products, from identity and bank-statement assessment to loan management, payments and credit reporting — every figure showing the evidence behind it.

  • Now / Live

    Mundane Read

    News with the drama taken out and measured, with a reader site, a browser extension and an API.

  • Now / Live

    Adjective tagger, trained in-house (opens in a new tab)

    A part-of-speech tagger trained on annotated English. On news it finds adjectives at F1 0.80, where matching word endings scores 0.56 on the same text.

  • 2019

    Stock price analyser

    Daily sentiment of news about a company read against its share price. The ancestor of Mundane Read.

  • 2019

    ELO-rating model for loan default

    A credit score built the way chess ranks players, from bank statements alone, with a confidence interval that says when to buy a credit report instead.

  • 2019

    basicanalysis (opens in a new tab)

    A Python package, under a hundred lines, that runs the core metrics of most supervised-learning methods over a dataset in one go.

  • 2019

    Fall Relief

    A team of four building targeted exercise and diet plans to reduce falls among people aged 65 and over.

  • 2019

    Document OCR at SoDa Labs

    Research data compiled from scanned documents at Monash University: a digit-recognition network built from scratch at over 90% accuracy, and a dedicated recognition model that took extraction accuracy from 10% to 74%.

  • 2019

    Logistics forecasting proof of concept

    Planning predictions for a leading logistics company, built for Dusk Mobile and delivered in 15 days at 74.45% accuracy.

  • 2018

    Demographic statistical analysis (opens in a new tab)

    Statistical analysis of demographic data, with the notebooks on GitHub.

  • 2015

    Virtual Hair Salon

    An augmented-reality visualisation concept that took second place at Hack-Pi-Duino, a state-level hackathon.

  • Next

    The next one is in the works.

    I’m always building something. New projects land here first, and in the newsletter.

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