Hello World ✌🏻

I am Ayush. I am a student, a teacher, and a practitioner of data science.
Here I blog/jot/dump/scatter ideas/muses/learnings/experiences on all things data and software.

I am based in Nepal 🇳🇵 and I currently work as a Staff Data Scientist 📈👨‍💻 at Cloudfactory. I recently graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology 🐝 Analytics program (focusing on Computational Data Analytics and Machine Learning). I am also building a data community in Nepal via Code for Nepal. When I am AFK, I am lifting weights.


Posts


This is a starter code for Twitter sentiment analysis. Not to be used in prod.
This is a Twitter bot that shows progress on covid vaccination (full and partial) in Nepal. Like always, it is all open source (MIT). Contributions are appreciated.
What emoji is popular in Kathmandu? Has it changed recently? Have we become more empathetic? 50K tweets between 2012 to 2021 (containing emojis, and geocoded to Kathmandu) were analyzed to study our affinity towards emojis.
A proxy based indicator model to assess statistical literacy of a country. 101060 articles were analyzed to assess the use of data in media. The news articles are scraped from article URLs posted by the official news portal's account on twitter. The news portals that use twitter to post articles regularly are The Himalayan Times, Onlinekhabar, The Nepali Times, myRepublica, and The Kathmandu Post.
CLI tool and web app for anonymization of datasets. Kohokoho (को हो को हो) is a python package that anonymizes a dataset. Feel free to contribute with code (it's all open source), or by giving it a better name.
CLI tool to generate a summary of news/articles right on your terminal. If you spend most of your time on the terminal, and you need to update yourself on the news, use "choto". Choto will summarize the news for you.