Mekhala Kumar

Education/Work

I studied at FLAME University where I did an integrated program, earning a Bachelor’s degree and Postgraduate Diploma. My major was Applied Mathematics and minor was Economics. Through my courses, I also had programming experience in Java, Python, R and STATA and visualisation experience in Google Data Studio and Tableau.
Moreover, I interned at the WageIndicator Foundation for two years, as an intern in Data Visualisation and Analysis team for a year and then as a co-manager of the same team in the following year.

R experience

I attended a two week R Workshop at FLAME University where we learnt about operations in R and how to handle datasets. Additionally, I utilised R for statistical analysis in a few courses at FLAME University .

Research interests

Migration, Gender Economics, Social Justice

Hometown

Bengaluru

Hobbies

I enjoy practising Karate, singing, swimming and reading books.

Fun fact

I have made a few parodies, they’re on YouTube.