Delivering AI and Machine Learning Training to Government Statisticians in Cambodia
How FAO-supported training is building machine learning and advanced analytics capacity within Cambodia's National Institute of Statistics and Ministry of Agriculture.
Movie Selector: Built to End the Date Night Debate
Why I built a swipe-based movie discovery app to solve the eternal problem of choosing what to watch on date night.
Pacing Models for the CrossFit Open (and Hyrox)
Interactive mathematical models to plan your rep strategy, adjust fatigue parameters, and predict your score for the 2026 CrossFit Open and Hyrox.
Understanding Food Security Indicators
How food security indicators like the FIES, Food Consumption Score, and Prevalence of Undernourishment are calculated, and what Cambodia is doing to strengthen national capacity.
Planning IT Infrastructure for National Surveys: A Practical Checklist
Lessons from the Bangkok workshop on infrastructure planning for CAPI operations — server capacity, cloud vs. on-premise, security, and the decisions that can make or break a large-scale data collection exercise.
Data Dictionaries and Metadata: The Boring Infrastructure That Makes Everything Work
Why most agricultural data systems fail not because of bad data, but because of bad documentation. DDI and SDMX standards, automating metadata extraction, and building documentation that survives staff turnover.
Results-Based Financing: A Statistician's Perspective on Verification Design
How statistical sampling and analysis underpin accountability in development finance. Reflections from designing verification methodologies for the Modern Cooking Facility for Africa programme across 26 service providers.
Cambodia's Agriculture Data Just Got a Major Upgrade
CAS 2025 is now fully government-funded — a milestone for national ownership and the 50x2030 Initiative.
100km Through the Cambodian Temples
Walking the Ultra Trail Angkor 100km with an ankle injury — a military march, two loops, 18 hours, and blisters on blisters.
5,000km Across India in a Rickshaw
Driving a 7-horsepower auto-rickshaw across India with no set route, constant breakdowns, and maximum chaos. The Rickshaw Run.
From Retail Audits to Rice Yields: My Unconventional Path in Data
How running a market research company in Cambodia prepared me for UN statistical operations — and what both sectors can learn from each other.
How We Ran Cambodia's First Random Digit Dialling Study
The methodology behind Cambodia's first RDD phone survey — sampling across 3 mobile networks, a 7% completion rate, and why it worked.
What Cambodians Actually Think — Survey Findings That Challenge the Narrative
What a nationally representative survey revealed about Cambodian attitudes toward governance — nuanced, pragmatic, and more complex than the prevailing narrative.
Why I Built a Conservation Crowdfunding Platform on the Blockchain
From kayaking on the Mekong to winning ADB funding — Pokémon-inspired conservation NFTs, an honest look at what went wrong, and why I still believe in the potential.
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