My name is Yash Patel and I am currently a junior majoring in economics. My client is Dr. Rini B. Mehta, who is an assistant professor of Comparative and World Literature for the School of Literature, Cultures, and Linguistics at the University of Illinois. As a Data Analyst for Dr. Mehta, I clean and analyze data concerning box office sales for films and different films awards. I then compare the data to see if there exists a relationship between awards won by a film and the film's total box office sales. Besides the box office project, I am also working on analyzing scripts of top grossing movies to check for frequently used words, common themes, and important geographical locations. While working for Dr. Mehta, I have learned many new skills that I can use in my future career, such as making visualizations with Tableau, cleaning and analyzing data in Excel, and using Python for data sorting and mining. My favorite part of this internship is how I can learn new skills and have an opportunity to apply my knowledge directly skills to a project. 

In addition to my current studies, I am interested in double majoring in economics and statistics. I like data science and eventually want to become a Data Analyst. So far, my favorite class at UIUC has been ECON 203 (Economics Statistics II) because it introduced me to data science and how to analyze data in Excel. Outside of ATLAS and academics, I am involved in Economic Club and am the Community Involvement Chair for my fraternity. Finally, I love Mexican food; therefore, my favorite place to eat on campus would have to be Maize!