Rishik Narla
Cumming,GA
Summary
I am an independent, self-motivated, and hard-working person, looking for an opportunity to work in a data-driven environment where my analytical skills can be utilized. I am Comfortable with tools such as Excel and Tableau and their functions and familiar with the concepts of an open-source big data platform HPCC and the supporting query language ECL. Have extensive knowledge of calculus and statistics and will be able to apply that in any way necessary.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Data Visualization
NASSTA
01.2015 - Current
- Imported average income sorted by zip code and used Tableau to visualize the data into a map in order to figure out which geographical areas tend to have higher earning people living there.
- Set up a map in Tableau using the Marks function.
- Uploaded each zip code I wanted to analyze into the detail tab and the average family income of those zip codes into the color tab which allowed Tableau to create a map that visualized which areas had the highest and lowest family incomes Trends Comparison: Imported daily stock prices for certain companies and used the R code to easily compare the trends of the stock prices of those companies over a large duration of time.
- Used R Studio to install and download the quantmod package which provides a framework for quantitative financial modeling.
- Accessed daily stock prices of various companies using the getSymbols function.
- Used the chartSeries function to graph and easily compared the trends of multiple companies’ stock prices University Assistantship: Tutored students in the Math Assistant Complex at Georgia State University.
- Helped students grasp calculus and statistics concepts for their classes.
- Volunteering Experience: Have been an active volunteer at the Non-Profit organizations here in Atlanta.
- Help to transport and to distribute food to the underprivileged here in Atlanta.
- Manage the traffic in the parking lot during the busy hours.
- Help with the setup before the charity events and cleanup after the event – e.g.
- Free Health Fare; Blood Drive etc.
- Volunteer at “VIBHA Dream Mile Run”.
01.2014 - 01.2016
- Helped give directions to people participating in the event to raise the funds for the underprivileged children.
- Helped set up the event including the food and the signs to guide participants.
- Handing water bottles to the participants.
Education
South Forsyth High School
Finance
Georgia State University
Skills
Learned the concepts of R through taking a Financial Data Analytics course at Georgia State Used mathematical functions in R during assignments to help interpret various patterns of dataTableau (Visual Analytics Platform) – Learned the functions of Tableau through taking a Computer Information Systems course at Georgia StateExcel – As part of one of the college courses – CIS, completed college assignments using moderately complex functions such as VLOOKUP function for data retrieval
Data formatting
Data profiling
Data analysis
Accomplishments
- HPCC Systems Platform Architecture – HPCC (High Performance Computing Cluster) is an open-source, data-intensive computing system platform that used high-performance processing for applications utilizing big data.
- Learned the concepts using online training videos.
- Please see the link for more information: https://hpccsystems.com/ ECL (Enterprise Control Language) – This is a query language (Enterprise Control Language) that runs on the HPCC Systems platform and is designed specifically for huge data projects.
- Learned the concepts of the HPCC programming language using online training videos.
- Please click on this LINK for more information.
Timeline
Data Visualization
NASSTA
01.2015 - Current
01.2014 - 01.2016
Finance
Georgia State University
South Forsyth High School