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Projects Portfolio
  • GIS Consultant

  • Providing recommendations

  • Report writting

  • Spatial data

  • ArcGIS

Using ArcGIS to map structural and functional landscape connectivity for lesser spotted woodpeckers in the Wythenshawe woodlands as a GIS-consultant. Identifying important management approaches, prioritising resource allocation and wider social and economic implications through cartography.

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January 2022

Landscape Connectivity in Manchester, UK

  • Spatial data

  • Visualisation

  • Cartograpic design principles

  • ArcGIS

     

Mapping Airbnb locations in Chicago, Illinois, specifically looking at theft density in Chicago and the spatial location of Airbnb listings. Mapping the prices of Airbnb to show where in Chicago the cost is above average. 

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December 2021

Airbnb Mapping in Chicago

  • Cartography

  • Spatial data

  • QGIS

  • R programming

Utilising the QGIS software to create geo-visualisations presenting South Yorkshire employees by their occupation industry using the small multiples cartographic design technique and the spatial distribution of education, skills and training deprivation within the region. Crime incidents and shoplifting density in the City of Los Angeles was also mapped using R.

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December 2021

Open Source GIS and Spatial Data Analysis

  • Used 10 official economic plans

  • Quantitative text analysis

  • Cluster analysis

  • R programming

Has Regional Devolution led to Place-Based Economic Strategies?
Text analysis of UK Combined Authority Strategic Economic Plans using R and R Markdown. Unsupervised hierarchical and k-means clustering to group SEPs with similar content and uncover underlying patterns.

July 2021

Levelling Up in a Decentralised UK

  • 1115 stores

  • Data cleaning

  • Data linkage

  • Sales forecasting

  • Random Forest

  • Python

Data preprocessing of sales data, collected from the European Rossmann drug store chain in Germany. Using Python to manage missing values, perform data integration, transformation, visualisation and feature engineering. Building a forecasting model to predict 6 weeks of daily sales for 1115 stores.

June 2021

Rossmann Drug Stores

  • 26,000+ apprentices 

  • Government data

  • Supervised machine learning

  • Predicting course completion

  • Ordinal Logistic Regression

Exploratory data analysis assessing the effectiveness of apprenticeship programmes delivered within South Yorkshire, and predictive outcome modelling, using Individualised Learner Records data supplied by the UK Department for Education.

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Internship at SYMCA, April 2021

  • Database creation

  • Management

  • Querying

  • MySQL

     

Creating a database management system using MySQL for the an online coding academy named sicKode Tutors, forming the capstone project for the Code First Girls 'Introduction to Data and SQL' course. Presenting this to other members of the course.

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March 2021

sicKode Tutors

  • Qualitative Analysis

  • Semi-structured Interview​

  • Thematic Coding

  • Nvivo

COVID-19 and Graduate Career Goals 

January 2021

How has the COVID-19 pandemic affected the future career goals and motivation of 2020 graduates? Obtaining ethics approval and informed consent from a human participant. Transcription and thematic analysis of data collected through a semi-structured interview and qualitative text analysis of diary entries using the NVivo software.

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  • 50,000+ diamonds

  • Data visualisation

  • Cluster analysis

  • Price estimations

  • R programming

     

January 2021

Diamonds

Exploratory data analysis of a diamonds dataset consisting of over 50,000 observations as well as unsupervised and supervised machine learning to classify and predict diamond prices.

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  • Software development

  • Agent-based modelling

  • Predicting fallout

  • Python

     

October 2020

Bacterial Bomb

An Object Oriented Programme developed using Python to map the locations of bacterial particles released in a town. Utilising Agent Based Modelling and Random Walk Theory to account for wind direction and wind turbulence.

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  • Guided software development

  • Agent-based modelling

  • Python

Agent-Based Modelling

September 2020

Building an agent based model through guided Python practicals. Simulating several agents interacting with one another and the environment by various behaviours such as moving, eating and sharing resources. 

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  • BSc dissertation

  • Mathematical physics

  • Scientific report writting

Solitons: Kinks, Collisions and Breathers

March 2020

Exploring 1D single soliton and multi-soliton solutions of the Sine-Gordon nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equation. Investigating soliton kink-kink, kink-antikink and breather solutions, involving their wave-particle duality, reminiscent of quantum mechanics.

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©2021 by Shivani Sickotra

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