Analytics · Data science · Agentic AI

Will Edwards, PhD

I lead analytics and data science teams, but have always remained hands on keyboard alongside them. Lately that means putting agentic AI to work on the reporting and routine tasks that slow teams down.

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Will Edwards

Recent work at

SpectrumCharles SchwabDiscoverSears

What I do

Put AI to work on real workflows

AI ambassador within Spectrum's product organization, bringing generative and agentic AI into day-to-day analytics.

  • Agents that shorten reporting cycles
  • Automating routine analysis tasks
  • Coaching teams to use AI well

Build models that change decisions

Machine learning, NLP and statistics that move from notebook to production and show up in revenue or cost.

  • Attrition, LTV, fraud and propensity
  • Segmentation and anomaly detection
  • Survival analysis and forecasting

Lead and translate

I turn a business problem into something a data scientist can build, and the result back into a decision an executive can make.

  • Teams of analysts and data scientists
  • Executive reporting, including to the CEO
  • Merger integration and vendor selection
Independent project · Survival analysis, LightGBM

Subscription churn at scale

When do new music-streaming subscribers leave, and who leaves next month? An end-to-end study on 392M usage records, from raw logs to a published analysis.

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0.869
out-of-time AUC on 971K subscribers
6.0×
lift in the riskiest decile
Independent project · Credit risk, cash-flow IRR, LightGBM

Did the rate cover the risk?

Realized investor returns across 2.26 million Lending Club loans, and what an application-time risk model would have added by screening out the loans that lost money.

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5.6%
realized annual return on the matured book
+$5.7M
investor profit from declining the riskiest 5% of 2015 loans
Independent project · Geospatial, regression, anomaly detection

Closing the broadband gap

Seven years of US speed tests mapped to every county: how far rural areas caught up, why a gap remains, and how test surges flag outages such as Hurricane Helene.

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21→204
Mbps, typical rural home download, 2019 to now
594M
speed tests mapped to US counties
 Spectrum · Agentic AI

Bringing agentic AI into a product organization

Helping bring generative and agentic AI into analytics and data science work as an AI ambassador.

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Journey Analytics

Connecting every call, chat and web visit to the client transaction behind it, used firm-wide as product KPIs.

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