About Me
My name is Nivi Achanta and I graduated from UC Davis in 2017 with a degree in statistics and another one in managerial economics. During my time at Davis, I have helped found and grow two campus organizations: Consult Your Community Davis and Net Impact Davis. CYC Davis is a chapter of a national undergraduate consulting group that offers pro-bono services to local businesses in the Davis area, and Net Impact is the undergraduate chapter of an international non-profit that I founded in October 2016. Please feel free to check out the websites to see what my teams and I have been working on over the years.
I currently work full-time in San Francisco for Accenture Consulting, and my passion project is to fix America’s education system. I have been working on an econometrics thesis, which you can find here.
In my free time, I win case competitions, hang out with my friends, go rock climbing, and read as many books as I possibly can without my eyes hurting. I am also a connoisseur of Trader Joe’s cheese and budget wine.
Please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn and check out my résumé!
Data Science Projects
Consult Your Community (CYC) Davis
I have been with CYC since its first engagement cycle in 2013. I was promoted from a consultant to an engagement manager to the Vice President of Internal Affairs, which has been my role for the 2016-2017 school year. Once we hired a new executive board for the 2017-2018 board, I took on consultant responsibilities once again, and web scraped the Davis Chamber of Commerce website to put together a list of all the businesses in Davis and its surrounding areas. You can find my code here and the actual spreadsheet below.
Case Competitions
During my time at UC Davis, I have been a finalist in over 7 business case competitions. The most well known one is the PwC Challenge case competition, and during its début at UC Davis, my team and I (team Davis Women in Business) won first place. After the PwC victory, we participated in a case competition sponsored by Target in 2017, winning second place. Both cases involved a PowerPoint presentation and a write-up. To give you a good representation of my work, I’ve attached the written deliverable for PwC’s Challenge, and the PowerPoint for Target.
Courses in Statistics
STA 104: Non-parametric Statistics
STA 106: Analysis of Variance
STA 108: Regression Analysis
STA 130: Mathematical Statistics
STA 137: Applied Time Series Analysis
STA 138: Analysis of Categorical Data
STA 141A: Fundamentals of Statistical Data Science
STA 141B: Data and Web Technologies for Data Analysis
Assignments
- Assignment 1: Doomsday Algorithm
- Assignment 2: Image Processing and SVD
- Assignment 3: Excel I/O, Data Manipulation, and Plotting
- Assignment 4: APIs and Model Construction
- Assignment 5: Webscraping and Natural Language Processing
- Assignment 6: SQL and Mapping