SHREENITA GHOSH
RESEARCH SCIENTIST | DATA ANALYST
I’m a data-driven researcher and analyst with over 7 years of diverse experience employing statistical techniques, data manipulation, multiple quantitative and qualitative methods and an array of programming languages to derive key insights. Utilizing my innovative thinking skills, I develop novel methodologies that drive research projects from start to finish. I harness data visualization and presentation skills to detail findings for diverse audiences. I’m multilingual in English, Bengali, and Hindi.
I’m on track to complete a Ph.D. in journalism and mass communication in 2022.
Key Accomplishments from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Helped shape the research agenda and drive end-to-end research projects on topics such as COVID-19, the 2020 United States presidential election, and reproductive rights, applying unique theoretical frameworks.
- Presented academic research at 30 international, national, and regional conferences while publishing articles in peer-reviewed journals, clearly communicating analysis and results to diverse audiences.
- Created Python web-scraping algorithms for U.S. news websites as well as Python and R scripts to automate the download of media statistics from multiple news archives.
- Developed workflows for downloading social media content, text preprocessing, n-gram analysis, term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) analysis, and semantic network analysis.