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Sowmya Penugonda

Seattle,WA

Summary

Highly motivated and detailed-oriented candidate passionate about using data to improve business performance and customer experience. Skilled at leveraging data to develop actionable solutions to business challenges and utilizing data mining and data visualization to create meaningful insights. Excellent technical aptitude and knowledge of programming languages, data analytics and data visualization.

Overview

1
1
year of professional experience

Work History

Data Analyst Intern

Straive Chennai
01.2022 - 06.2022
  • Streamlined data collection processes by implementing efficient data mining techniques and conducted thorough data validation and cleanup, ensuring accuracy and reliability of datasets used for analysis.
  • Created interactive dashboards to visualize KPIs and business metrics, enhancing data accessibility for stakeholders
  • Implemented prebuilt connectors and multiple ingestion paths to unify data from various touchpoints, improving customer experience by 40% and documenting behavioral insights.

Data Analyst Intern

Spark Skills Pvt. Ltd
09.2021 - 12.2021
  • Applied data cleaning and transformation methods to prepare datasets for analysis
  • Employed web scraping techniques and APIs to collect and preprocess data from diverse sources, ensuring quality and reliability for analysis.

Education

Master of Science - Business

The University of Texas At Dallas, Jindal School of Management
Dallas, TX
05.2024

Bachelor of Business Administration Business -

Garden City University
Bangalore
06.2022

Skills

  • Programming languages: SQL, Python, R language, Web Analytics, Google Analytics
  • Software packages: Power BI, Excel, Visual Studio Code, Jupyter, Postman, MongoDB, stata
  • Design & Analysis: Machine learning, Natural language processing, Process analysis, requirement analysis, KPI Definition, Hypothesis testing (A/B testing)
  • Operating systems & software: MySQL, Windows, Linux

Accomplishments

    COVID-19 Data Visualization Using Python March 2024- April 2024

  • Developed educational line graphs to show trends in COVID-19 cases, deaths, and recoveries over time using Matplotlib and Pandas
  • Utilized real-world data from Johns Hopkins University to ensure accuracy and relevance, gaining practical experience in handling and visualizing pandemic-related data
  • Time Series Analysis Nov 2023 - Dec 2023

  • Explored time series analysis and forecasting with a focus on product sales
  • Built predictive models using ARIMA, SARIMA, and LSTM for forecasting stock prices, economic indicators, or climate trends
  • Bank Marketing Data Analysis and key features, their impact on Customer Churn Ratio May 2023

  • Analyzed a bank marketing dataset using R for data imputation, preprocessing, and exploratory analysis
  • Applied AI/ML techniques like Decision Tree, Random Forest, and XGBoost with Chi-Squared statistical treatment to identify key parameters affecting customer churn.

Timeline

Data Analyst Intern

Straive Chennai
01.2022 - 06.2022

Data Analyst Intern

Spark Skills Pvt. Ltd
09.2021 - 12.2021

Master of Science - Business

The University of Texas At Dallas, Jindal School of Management

Bachelor of Business Administration Business -

Garden City University
Sowmya Penugonda