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Shobana Arumugamangalam Iyyasami

Data Analyst
Chicago,IL

Summary

Data Analyst who plays the data game by strategically moving Python, SQL, and visualization tools to checkmate complex datasets and unveil actionable insights. Crafts narratives from numbers, ensuring every move counts in the quest for data-driven decision-making.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Data Analyst

KGS Technology Group
6 2024 - 9 2024
  • Implemented data migration strategies to streamline processes, improve data quality, and enhance system performance
  • Conducted data exploration, executed SQL queries to validate customer data and eliminated redundancy by 20%
  • Catered to ad-hoc requests and collaborated with a cross-functional team to support data inquiries
  • Assisted in optimizing decision-making processes by creating and managing dashboards in Tableau to monitor sales revenue and business expenses; and employed data visualization techniques to translate insights into business narratives.

Research Assistant

University of Illinois Chicago
08.2023 - 06.2024
  • Researched and implemented a Python script to calculate 'Doubling Dimension, a critical parameter used in designing algorithms for database queries
  • Extensively mined real-world data of up to 100,000 social-media posts from Twitter and Facebook feed using Tweepy and Facebook Graph API
  • Extended the 'Cover Tree' algorithm to nodes of Twitter and Facebook data and visualized the results using Gephi.

Data Science Mentee

Kaggle
12.2022 - 03.2023
  • Spearheaded a project on Stock Price Forecasting as a part of a study on Time Series Analysis
  • Collaborated with a cross-country team to conduct a detailed Time Series Analysis of stock price trends of Netflix and Microsoft for the last 21 and respectively
  • Mined the Stock Price Data of Netflix and Microsoft from Google Finance and Yahoo Finance using SerpAPI
  • Forecasted the future prices of stocks using ARMA, ARIMA, SARIMA and XGBoost models, achieved a minimal mean squared error of 3.1 and 2.3 and visualized the results on Looker Studio.

Instructor

Devi Labs
05.2022 - 06.2022
  • Volunteered as a Teaching Assistant for an organization empowering women in coding by preparing course materials, assignments, and instructing Python classes.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

UIC
Chicago, IL
08.2024 - 05.2023

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering

Anna University
Chennai, India
08.2016 - 09.2020

Skills

Programming languages : Python, C, C, Java (core)

Coreskills

Python, C, C++, Java (core), JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Python - Django, Flask, MySQL, SQLite, Neo4j, NumPy, Pandas, Seaborn, Matplotlib, Scikit-learn, Tableau, Looker Studio, Linear and Logistic Regression, SVM, Decision Trees, Boosting & Nearest Neighbour Algorithms, Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, Pivot table), Azure Data Studio, Snowflake, Google Bigquery, Talend, Agile methodology, Waterfall methodology, SDLC

Certification

Azure AI Fundamentals

Projects

Analysis of Abandoned Animals - Baton Rouge| Python - Pandas, Seaborn, Matplotlib, Flask   May 2024 - June 2024

Scraped 8 years of data of animal control incidents from Baton Rouge Animal Control Rescue Center.

Performed an in-depth exploratory data analysis on 150,000 records and employed analytical methods to identify the animal breeds at high risk of abuse.

Generated visualizations for the results in Python and developed a web page to report this data using Python Flask.


Analysis of Hotel Reviews Using Deep Learning Technique | Python - Scikit-learn, TWINT  Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

Aggregated and prepared a Deceptive Opinion Spam Corpus by mining tweets from Twitter using TWINT OSINT tool and built binary classifiers for sentiment analysis of hotel reviews.

Accomplished state of the art accuracy of 96.09% using a Naive Bayes classifier and an accuracy of 78.97% using the Average Perceptron Model.


Music Analysis: Genre Prediction using Music Information Retrieval | Pandas, Scikit-learn                   Mar 2022 - May 2022

Predicted the genre of music among 12 genres in a Free Music Archive dataset containing 100k plus tracks using quantifiable features of a track like measure of acousticness, energy etc using supervised learning models such as K-Nearest Neighbor, Logistic Regression, Naive Bayesian Classifier, Random Forest and Decision Tree Classifier.

Achieved an accuracy of 86.91% with the Decision Tree Classifier after Feature Selection.

Timeline

Google Data Analytics

09-2024

Master of Science - Computer Science

UIC
08.2024 - 05.2023

Azure AI Fundamentals

06-2024

Research Assistant

University of Illinois Chicago
08.2023 - 06.2024

Machine Learning on Google Cloud

03-2023

Data Science Mentee

Kaggle
12.2022 - 03.2023

Instructor

Devi Labs
05.2022 - 06.2022

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering

Anna University
08.2016 - 09.2020

Data Analyst

KGS Technology Group
6 2024 - 9 2024
Shobana Arumugamangalam IyyasamiData Analyst