Ankita Dhawan
Abu Dhabi
Summary
Meticulous Data Scientist with knowledge and experience implementing machine learning techniques like segmentation, classification and time series forecasting for improved statistical analyses. Optimized and innovated current models and solutions to aid objective attainment. Engaged cross-functional teams to achieve data strategy roadmaps
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Analytics Consultant
Quantzig, Infiniti Research
01.2022 - Current
- Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to understand business requirements for projects by evaluating the data requirements and business problems/business logic
- Assessing different sources of data, discover hidden patterns in data, develop new features and a combination of models using various machine learning algorithms such as regression analysis, classification, NLP (sentiment analysis, topic modelling), Clustering, Time-Series Forecasting etc
- Implementing projects using data mining, data exploration/pre-processing, building models and visualization
- Optimizing models through parameter tuning, Auto-ML techniques, feature engineering and regularization methodologies and cross validation
- Summarizing data and storyboarding relevant Business KPIs through BI dashboards and visualization reporting.
Research Associate
Indian School of Business
08.2019 - 12.2021
- Engaged in primary and secondary research for conceptual papers, white papers, and research projects for clients such as Goldman Sachs and AON
- Analyzed datasets by data extraction, data preparation, data mining, and visualization using Pandas, Matplotlib, and Scikit-learn through factorial analysis, principal component analysis, classification, and regression analysis
- Published a research paper in a Latin American Journal on women entrepreneurs in emerging markets
- Worked in research projects with clients like AON and Goldman Sachs on the future of work and the role of women in the workplace.
Senior Executive
Bharti Foundation
07.2018 - 05.2019
- Identified research articles and reproduced/applied the methodology to the business and social problems
- Contributed to research projects; engaged in analyzing data sets that can then be analyzed to provide key insights
- Bought the dropout rate of education down by 10% in Delhi government schools through active campaigning, public awareness, and team effort.
Asst. Manager
NR Management Consultants India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2015 - 05.2017
- Acted as a researcher in designing projects, collecting & analyzing data
- Designed survey tools and collected data from 8000+ respondents across 2 states of India to assess the access and utilization of government infrastructure in Healthcare and Education using Excel and SPSS.
Education
Certification - Data Science
AnalytixLabs
India01.2022
MSW - Social Sciences
Christ University
01.2015
B.A. Hons. - Philosophy
Delhi University
01.2013
Skills
- Python Programming
- SQL
- Power BI
- Excel
- Problem-solving
- Data Science
- Machine Learning
- Statistical Modeling
- SQL & Relational DataBase management
- Visualization and Reporting
Major Projects Undertaken
Project: SKU level Demand Forecasting
Project Description: Performed Demand forecasting for multiple SKUs for Whirlpool
· Understanding the business need and problem statemement of the client in inventory management
· Identify seasonality and trend of products at store level, aggregate products and stores into similar clusters and determine overall seasonality and trend
· Perform demand forecasting for multiple SKUs across multiple cities and regions to understand the demand movement, and recommend business to focus on Specific SKUs that generate maximum demand and revenue
Project Name: Prediction of Customer Conversion Rate and Mining of Amazon Reviews
Project Description: To predict the Customer Conversion Rate for Johnson & Johnson
· Built a model to predict customer conversion rate for the client, based on their sales and Amazon reviews
· Executed Driver Analysis by cleaning and preparing the datasets for data pre-processing; performed visualizations, feature selection, and model building in Python for the same
· Performed Text Analytics; mined Amazon reviews through Topic Modelling by doing Latent Dirichlet Allocation along sentiment analyis in understanding the relevance of reviews in driving the overall customer conversion rate
Project Name: Price Comparison Tool for Price optimization for PUMA
Project Description: Building a dashboard for PUMA to compare the price of puma products with other marketplaces
· Building dashboards on KPIs related to price optimization for PUMA with respect to other marketplaces/competitors in PowerBI
· Performed data cleaning, transformations and delivered front end/ backend development of the dashboard with respect to design, layout and dax queries.
· Created tables in Azure SQL and established database models using dataflows
· Successfully converted a POC into a client project
Notable Accomplishments
- Awared the Star Performer of quarter, october 2023 at Quantzig, Infiniti Research for 'going the extra mile'
- Awarded with '1st Prize' in the IndiaPusle Hackathon@ISB Insights in preparing a Multi-Dimensional Poverty Index using clustering and other machine learning techniques at Indian School of Business
- Published a research paper in a Latin American Journal on women led businesses in emerging markets.
Hackathons Participated
- The Kaggle Tabular Playground Series, 2021
- Predicting CTR (click-through rate action) of an Email Campaign, Data Hack, Analytics Vidhya
- IndiaPulse Hackathon@ISB
Certification
- Data Science Course (with specialization in Machine Learning in R and Python), AnalytixLabs, 2021
- How Google Does Machine Learning, Coursera, Google Cloud
Timeline
Analytics Consultant
Quantzig, Infiniti Research
01.2022 - Current
Research Associate
Indian School of Business
08.2019 - 12.2021
Senior Executive
Bharti Foundation
07.2018 - 05.2019
Asst. Manager
NR Management Consultants India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2015 - 05.2017
Certification - Data Science
AnalytixLabs
MSW - Social Sciences
Christ University
B.A. Hons. - Philosophy
Delhi University
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