Hello! I'm Karansinh
I'm a Certified Data-Driven Story-Teller with 21+ months of experience in Market Study and Strategic Planning.
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Yes, I can help you change your opinions over your business using your data!
Karansinh Raj
Advanced Analytics & Data Science Enthusiast
Phone:
312-989-9317
Email:
Address:
711 S Loomis St.,
Little Italy, Chicago, IL - 60607
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Date of Birth:
December 09th, 1995
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EXPERIENCE
Since January 2020
Vice - President
Business Analytics Organization (UIC)
About BAO:
The Business Analytics Organization (BAO) is formed to promote the intellectual and professional development of students with an interest in business analytics. We intend to create a common platform for analytics enthusiasts and help share their views and grow as a community.
Responsibilities:
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Leading UIC’s official Analytics Organization by managing a team of more than 7 members for organizing various technical workshops and networking events.
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Working closely with the Faculty Advisor and the working committee to set tangible goals quarterly for the betterment of UIC Business Analytics and Information & Decision Science Community.
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January 2020 -May 2020
Graduate Academic Tutor
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC - Global)
About UIC - Global:
UIC Global is a pathways program for incoming international undergraduate students. Ace works with these students by their staff teaching in their academic skills program (ASP) courses. (web-site)
Responsibilities:
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My major work focuses primarily on tutoring international students individually and in small groups of 3 to 5, attend tutor/faculty meetings, update on student progress, and conduct informative workshops.
Toppr E-Learning App
About Toppr:
Toppr is a Mumbai based online learning platform launched in February 2013. Company is founded by IITB (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) Alumni. In December 2018, Toppr raised $35 million from existing investors and Kaizen Management Advisors Pvt. Ltd
Responsibilities:
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Working under my manager, I coordinated with local sales and marketing team, to fulfill projects related to customer experience, Incremental Sales Analysis, customer segmentation, customer retention rate analysis, & Market Campaign Analysis.
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Using python, Tableau & Advanced MS Excel, I’ve also worked on projects related to creation of customer segmentation model to channelize market strategy for sales and marketing teams, thereby increasing the offline customer target by almost 45%.
Tools & Technologies explored:
Sales Analytics, Customer Segmentation, Marketing Funnel Analysis, Advanced-MS Excel, Google Sheets, SQL, Python & Tableau
November 2018 - March 2019
Business Development Analyst
November 2017 to June 2018
Marketing & Retail Analyst
Ashima Textiles Ltd.
About Ashima Textiles:
Ashima offers cotton fabrics instilling the latest fashion trends and aesthetics. Excellence in Design and innovation has steered Ashima in the league of leading manufacturers of Yarn dyeds, Piece dyeds and Denims. Ashima has also set high standards in two of its own brands named Frank Jefferson and ICON.
Responsibilities:
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Working in a team of 7 people, I utilized tools like SQL to pull product-level sales data, to generate reports focused on market trend analytics and demand forecasting.
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Feeding product-level sales data in ARIMA forecasting modules developed in R programming, I was involved in the team which was responsible for giving 93% accurate seasonal demand forecast.
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Market trend analytics reports were further used by top management for strategizing, and the demand forecasts were utilized by a team of 70+ employees across 4 different production departments.
Tools & Technologies explored:
Market Analytics, Sales Forecasting, R, Advanced-MS Excel, SQL
EDUCATION
August 2019 - December 2020
Master's in Science (STEM)
at University of Illinois at Chicago
GPA: 3.82
Business Analytics (Data Science & Advanced-Analytics Focused)
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Summary: ​
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I'm currently pursuing MS in Business Analytics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where I've already enhanced my business problem solving with advanced-analytical capabilities and have become proficient in applied data science methodologies using Python, SQL, Spark, R, Tableau & many others
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I'm graduating in December 2020 and am currently open to joining an organization as a full-time employee with the job role focused on Advanced Analytics or Data Science
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2. Courses:
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Machine Learning & Advanced Analytics:
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IDS 575 - Machine Learning Core (R, Python, Google Colaboratory)
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IDS 572 - Business Data Mining & Predictive Modeling (tools: R, Python, Advanced-Analytics)
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IDS 561 - Analytics for Big Data (tools: Python, Py-Spark, SparkNLP)
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IDS 570 - Statistics for Management (tools: R, SAS, Analytics package of Excel)
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IDS 594 - Machine Learning Deployment (tools: Dockers, Git, A/B Testing, version control, Model management)
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- Programming Tools:
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IDS 401 - Python Programming for Data Science (tools: Python, Google Collab)
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IDS 567 - Business Data Visualization (tools: Tableau)
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IDS 521 - Advanced Database Management (tools: advanced SQL, PostgreSQL)
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Business Courses:
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IDS 540 - Marketing Analytics (using data to solve segmentation, sentiment analysis & market study problems)
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IDS 594 - Health Information & Analytics (worked on advanced-analytics using Python & R to solve Healthcare problems using claims & patient-level health-care data)
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ACTG 500 - Financial Accounting (studying financial statements)
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MKTG 500 - Business Marketing
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BA 520 - Improvisation and Leadership
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June 2013 - May 2017
Bachelor in Science
at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
GPA: 3.9 with 3 Gold Medals & 1 research paper
Textile Engineering
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Summary: ​
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With constant dedication and perseverance, I topped the undergraduate class with 3.85 GPA with 3 Gold Medals for over-all academic excellence & writing one research paper.
CERTIFICATIONS
SKILLS
SKILLS
Programming Languages :
R, Python, SQL, Spark, OWL, & Hadoop
Frameworks :
ggplot2, Auto.arima, PyTorch, Keras, PySpark, TensorFlow, Word2Vec, Bio-Word2Vec, Glove, NLTK, Scikit-Learn, Seaborn, Statsmodel, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, MatplotLib, Plotly, Google Collaboratory, rest APIs, & Spider
Databases :
MySQL, SqlServer, PostgreSQL, & Spark [Python implementation of Big Data]
Business Data Reporting :
Tableau, Google Analytics, Advanced MS Excel, & MS Visio
Other :
Hard Working, Punctual, Attention to detail, Analytical consulting, & Leadership
Predictive Modeling :
Net-Promoter Score Prediction, Linear & Logistic Regression, GLM, Naïve-Bayes, SVM, Decision trees, PCA, MCA, Neural-Nets, ensemble methods; random forest, bagging, & boosting
Natural Language Processing :
Text Analytics, Ontological Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis, & Social-Media Data Scrapping using developer APIs
Financial Modeling :
Time-Series Analysis, Seasonality Analysis, ARIMA Forecasting, Fourier Analysis, Spectral Analysis, Advanced Forecasting with CNN, Fraud & Anomaly Detection
Health-Care Analytics :
Predictive Analytics on Patient-level Data, Phase-4 drug Development-Marketing Intelligence, & Anomaly Detection in Insurance Claims Data
INTERESTS & HOBBIES
SCIENCE FICTION FANATIC
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"Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact"
-Isaac Asimov
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I'm great fan of sci-fi content, and love to explore it in various forms such as movies, books & documentaries. Currently curious to know the prediction accuracy of Elon Musk's Neural Activity predictor implanted in a pig. Yes, I'm talking about 'neuralink'.
COOKING
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I always doubt of trying cooking as a profession. Because then I'm certain that I won't settle in anything lesser that a title of a Michelin Star Chef! Maybe, being away from home, brought this new passion of mine.
TRAVELING
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In order to satiate my love of traveling, I mostly try to find a job that allows me to travel often. I love to travel & explore new places mostly for their culture and food habits.