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Here, you can find my academic publications, fun projects I’ve tried, stuff I’d like people to care about, some random musings and notes on my favourite things.
Recently, I started a weekly curated newsletter on data science and R: “Next — Today I Learned About R”. It’s been loved by more than a hundred learners so far.
About Me
I am currently a doctoral student of Business Analytics and Statistics at the Haslam College of Business, the University of Tennessee, under the supervision of Prof Sean Willems.
Previously I earned my BA and MBA from IIM Indore in April 2021. I was also an ERASMUS+ scholar at the University of Latvia between Feb-Jun 2019. I completed my schooling at Sainik School Tilaiya in 2016.
I enjoy programming, especially #rstats. In my free time, I read books, participate in adventure sports, and lift my spirits with Calvin and Hobbes. Spotify has boosted how much I listen to music; my playlist of Classical Hindi Music is popular on Spotify.
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Blizzard of Random Thoughts
Moving Next from Revue to Substack

Twitter is shutting down Revue, the newsletter platform that I use for Next. Thus, I’m migrating to Substack. You shouldn’t need to do anything on your side.
Read moreDLTGH: Days Left to Go Home

Today, I was at Chaiyos. It’s a Thai restaurant near my home in Knoxville. I asked for lo mein with spice level 8. I thought it’d make me feel homely. I was wrong.
Read moreInfallible Memory: The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling

You rarely come across a story so powerful that you experience so many different feelings — at the same time. Ted Chiang’s ‘The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling’ does that. It evokes several strong feelings, one after another, that will leave you soul-searching.
Read moreA Project Portfolio To Grow
Supply Chain Analytics at HP Inc.

Forecasting Global Print Demand Using Machine Learning
Read moreJoint Probability-based Dissimilarity Measure for Discrete Variables

A Simple Method to Calculate Distance between Discrete Variable
Read moregarlic: Some R Functions I Use Rather Frequently

My personal R package for custom functions
Read moreTalks & Presentations
CK Cafe: Using Association Rules to Find Basket of Goods

In this lab session, I share how to use apriori algorithm for association mining. The goal is to find useful causal and association rules which can help in designing promotions for the company. Plus, you get to see what’s served at an Indian cafe.
Read moreA Gentle Introduction to using Support Vector Machines for Classification

Support vector machines (SVM) are remarkable for the unification of geometric theory, elegant mathematics, theoretical guarantees with strong practical use cases. In this blog post, I demonstrate certain properties of SVM and how to use them with caret package in R.
Read moreUsing GitHub with RStudio

Introduction to using Git & GitHub with RStudio for MS (Business Analytics) Class of Fall 2022
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