Hi! I'm Ravi Brock.

About me:

Worked extensively with R to research COVID data
Wrote scripts with R to make my personal business (details below) more profitable

Python
- Originally learned Python to analyze my network on Twitter
- Later leveraged this experience to work as an intern at a hedge fund
- Worked with the Requests and Pandas modules to scrape posts from social media
Excel
- Used Excel along with R to clean and analyze data sets
- Built custom Excel spreadsheets for my business's accounting and inventory management

Intern - Indra Capital
- Worked as a paid intern at a hedge fund during my senior year of high school
- Developed programs to scrape user posts from social media
- Used Python and the Twitter + Reddit APIs to create custom scraping tools
Student Journalist - University of Arkansas
- Enrolled concurrently at the University of Arkansas as a data journalist
- Used R, Excel, Tableau, and Flourish to process data and create meaningful visualizations
- Wrote and researched stories about COVID-19 in Arkansas
- Fact-checked other students' stories before publication
Founder - Arkansashype Reselling
- Started a business buying shoes from retailers and selling them on the aftermarket at 13
- Worked on this for 3 years and scaled it into a business generating $50,000+ of gross profits
- Used Excel for accounting and R to scrape data for optimizing my business