Anshruta Thakur

Messy data. Expensive questions.

I'm the first data scientist at a consulting firm, working across sales, marketing and operations. I turn messy Salesforce data and half-documented business processes into forecasts, models and reporting systems people actually use.

Currently

Data Scientist, ABGi USA

Focus

Forecasting · attribution · machine learning

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Work

Dashboards rebuilt on synthetic data
SPEND $106K SIGNED FEE $1.09M ROAS 10.3× CONVERSION 4.3% SPEND VS SIGNED FEE ROAS BY CHANNEL Email Events Paid search OTC Houston no signed fee

01 — Marketing attribution

10.3×

blended ROAS, surfaced across three channels

Marketing performance dashboard

Campaign tools tracked clicks and booth scans. Salesforce tracked signed contracts. Nothing connected them, so no one could say which activity produced revenue. I built the identity-resolution layer matching contacts to accounts, the touchpoint table underneath it, and the report leadership now uses at budget time.

SalesforceSQLPower BI
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MONTHLY REVENUE — ACTUAL VS FORECAST CLIENT INVOICE DETAIL Client A-1042Fixed percent$48K Client B-0917Fixed fee$30K Client C-2210Hourly$26K

02 — Revenue forecasting

100+

active clients billed from the engine each month

The revenue & invoicing engine

Revenue lands when projects clear billing triggers, and the four contract types clear on two entirely different logics. The forecast was being reconstructed by hand in spreadsheets, one client at a time. The execs and I modeled each contract type under its own rules, estimated milestone slippage from how projects historically completed rather than from CRM dates, and built the engine finance now bills from.

PythonSQLSalesforcePower BI
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PREDICTED VS ACTUAL SELL-THROUGH 100% 50% 0% predicted sell-through →

03 — Retail analytics

0.77

held-out R² predicting full-season sell-through

Fashion demand notes

Merchandisers commit to reorders before they know how a style will sell. Week-one velocity turns out to be useless for predicting the season, because a large buy mechanically produces large velocity. Dividing units sold by units bought lifts the correlation from 0.07 to 0.75, and a linear model on that predicts full-season sell-through within about eight points.

Pythonscikit-learnpandas
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About

Anshruta Thakur on the steps of The Met, New York
The Met, this spring

My background is in quantitative economics (M.A., UCLA). Most of the work I do starts with a business question that has already been answered three different ways by three different people.

I'm the first data scientist at a 77-person consulting firm, so the job runs end to end. I pull data out of systems that weren't built to give it up, write down rules that were never written down, build the model, then build the thing people open on Monday morning.

Outside work I paint, follow fashion, and build small apps. I care how these pages look because reports that are pleasant to read get opened more often.

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Where I've worked

ABGi USA

Data Scientist

Apr 2025 — present · Houston

First data scientist hired by a 77-person consulting firm. Built the forecasting, attribution, and executive reporting systems now used across sales, marketing, finance, and operations.

Data Gals Initiative

Founder & Mentor

Sep 2024 — present

A mentor community for women entering data. Focused on getting people to finished projects, technical confidence, and the parts of career navigation nobody explains.

ABGi USA

Data Science Intern, Real Estate Practice

Jun — Dec 2024

Joined as the company's first data science hire of any kind and converted to full time. Early work on reporting and analysis for the real estate practice.

Optimas Capital

Quantitative Analyst

Jan — Mar 2024

Research on systematic strategies: reduced a 2,000-feature financial dataset with PCA, then modeled signals with random forest and gradient boosting.

Equity Methods LLC

Data Analyst

Aug — Sep 2023

Valuation and equity compensation analytics, working with the data behind client reporting.

UCLA

M.A. Quantitative Economics

Graduated Mar 2025 · GPA 3.86

Econometrics, causal inference, and machine learning. B.A. Economics, University of Delhi, before that.

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Lab

Selected projects · code on GitHub

Some of this was done independently, some with Optimas Capital. Notebooks exclude confidential data.

Looking for work that's technical, visual, and close to the business.

Data science, product analytics, and analytics engineering. Especially interested in product, media, fashion, design tools, and consumer companies.