hi. i’m saurabh

I’m a data sci­en­tist based in New York City. I’m cur­rent­ly a Prod­uct Data Sci­en­tist with­in Meta’s Real­i­ty Labs division.

Beyond my day job, I’m an avid sports ana­lyt­ics enthu­si­ast. It’s a medi­um through which I explore data lit­er­a­cy, push the bound­aries of data visu­al­iza­tion, and learn new tech­nolo­gies. You can find most of this on my Twit­ter!

Here’s some recent work I’ve been par­tic­u­lar­ly hap­py with:

 ➤ NBA Play­off Matchups[Observable][d3][R]
 ➤ Beeswarm Head­shot[Observable][d3]
 ➤ Explor­ing the EFL Pyramid[React][R]

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NBA Playoff Matchups

NBA Playoff Matchups
NBA Play­off Matchups

NBA Headshot Plot

NBA Headshot Plot
NBA Head­shot Plot

Exploring the EFL Pyramid

Exploring the EFL Pyramid
Explor­ing the EFL Pyramid

NBA Player Combos

NBA Player Combos
NBA Play­er Combos

NBA Rotation Finder

NBA Rotation Finder
NBA Rota­tion Finder

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Poster Design | Evanston Cradle to Career

The above is a poster I made in my Design Com­mu­ni­ca­tion course for local Evanston char­i­ty, Evanston Cra­dle to Career . This poster was made for Evanston C2C’s sum­mer read­ing cam­paign. Stu­dents that don’t read over …

Poster Design | Evanston Cradle to Career
Poster Design | Evanston Cra­dle to Career

Freelance | NBA Analytics

When I was younger I real­ly want­ed to be 6 feet tall, because to 7  year old me that I meant I’d make the NBA. Today I’m 25 years old, 5’9, and not in the NBA. I …

Freelance | NBA Analytics
Free­lance | NBA Analytics

The Riddler | FiveThirtyEight

I real­ly like puz­zles. Specif­i­cal­ly The Rid­dler series at FiveThir­tyEight. The puz­zles give me a good excuse to:to try new things from a tech­ni­cal per­spec­tive­ex­er­cise the more log­i­cal part of my brain — often a welcome …

The Riddler | FiveThirtyEight
The Rid­dler | FiveThirtyEight

STATS | Data Visualization & Product Intern

project details Our team of interns was tasked with build­ing a data visu­al­iza­tion plat­form (now called STATS Info­graph­ics) that allowed STATS to bet­ter lever­age their rich data into prod­ucts for media clients in an auto­mat­ed way. secondary …

STATS | Data Visualization & Product Intern
STATS | Data Visu­al­iza­tion & Prod­uct Intern

Kanye West’s Musical Transformation

  I recent­ly vis­it­ed the Takashi Muraka­mi exhib­it at the Chica­go Muse­um of Con­tem­po­rary Art and was inspired to do a deep­er div­er into Kanye as an artist. The data was pulled via Sort Your Music. The …

Kanye West’s Musical Transformation
Kanye West’s Musi­cal Transformation

NBA 2016–17 | A Summary In Shot Charts

  I made the above chart as both an art project and an exer­cise in cre­at­ing more aes­thet­ic short charts. All short charts were made via Python’s mat­plotlib library and the over­all visu­al­iza­tion was made through Sketch.

NBA 2016–17 | A Summary In Shot Charts
NBA 2016–17 | A Sum­ma­ry In Shot Charts

Harley Davidson | Digital Brand Strategy

project details Harley-David­son was seek­ing new busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties to engage mil­len­ni­als with the Harley-David­son brand. Our team, through North­west­ern’s Design Strat­e­gy course, was asked to iden­ti­fy and design those ver­ti­cals using a human-cen­tered design approach. User Research We …

Harley Davidson | Digital Brand Strategy
Harley David­son | Dig­i­tal Brand Strategy

Skylines | Information & Interaction Design

About the Project As a part of Tan­gi­ble Inter­ac­tion and Design and Learn­ing, groups of stu­dents re-design muse­um exhibits lever­ag­ing tech­nol­o­gy in an effort to cre­ate a bet­ter learn­ing expe­ri­ence. Our group chose to redesign the Sky­line exhib­it at the …

Skylines | Information & Interaction Design
Sky­lines | Infor­ma­tion & Inter­ac­tion Design

Service Design | Spotlight

How can we design a safe din­ing expe­ri­ence for stu­dents with aller­gies? Project Focus User Research • Service/Experience Design • Prod­uct Design Project Overview , the EDI ‘17 cohort, part­nered with Dr. Ruchi Gup­ta and her lab to research food aller­gy aware­ness on …

Service Design | Spotlight
Ser­vice Design | Spotlight

UX/UI Design — HearYe

project scope Through North­west­ern’s Inter­ac­tion Design Stu­dio were tasked to con­sult com­pa­nies from North­west­ern’s Start­up Garage on UX/UI design. We worked with HearYe,  a mobile appli­ca­tion that is designed to help friends plan casu­al group out­ings. At the …

UX/UI Design — HearYe
UX/UI Design — HearYe

Messed Around & Tracked a Triple Double

How can we design a dash­board to allow users to eas­i­ly track Rus­sell West­brook’s stats? R • d3 • Data Analy­sis • Data Visu­al­iza­tion Project Overview: A triple dou­ble is when a bas­ket­ball aver­ages 10 points, rebounds, and assists. The only play­er to accom­plish that …

Messed Around & Tracked a Triple Double
Messed Around & Tracked a Triple Double

Pacific Die Cut Industries | Project Engineer

role overview I spent the first two years out of under­grad as a Project Engi­neer at Pacif­ic Die Cut Indus­tries (PDCI) — a con­tract man­u­fac­tur­er ser­vic­ing the auto­mo­tive and med­ical indus­try. I start­ed sup­port­ing engi­neers on med­ical and auto­mo­tive projects …

Pacific Die Cut Industries | Project Engineer
Pacif­ic Die Cut Indus­tries | Project Engineer

CAD/CAM: Art to Part

How can we injec­tion mold a toy based on a 4th grader’s sketch? Skills Injec­tion Mold­ing • CNC • Design for Manufacutirng/Assembly • CAD Mod­el­ing Project Overview:            This project is cur­rent­ly in progress. I, along with 3 oth­er stu­dents, are …

CAD/CAM: Art to Part
CAD/CAM: Art to Part

IDI 24 Hour Design Challenge

How can we design an inter­ac­tion to pre­pare patients for Post Oper­a­tive Cog­ni­tive Dys­func­tion? Project Focus User Research  • Inter­ac­tion Design • Ser­vice Design Project Overview This past Fall I par­tic­i­pat­ed in IDI’s (Inte­grat­ed Design Inno­va­tion) 24-hour design chal­lenge. IDI …

IDI 24 Hour Design Challenge
IDI 24 Hour Design Challenge

Proctor & Gamble | Packaging Design & Engineering

Project Details Proc­ter & Gam­ble has decid­ed to pur­sue Intel­lec­tu­al Prop­er­ty Rights on the final project we designed. Con­se­quent­ly, details about the spe­cif­ic P&G prod­uct and the final prod­uct are under a con­fi­den­tial­i­ty agree­ment. Through North­west­ern’s Prod­uct Design …

Proctor & Gamble | Packaging Design & Engineering
Proc­tor & Gam­ble | Pack­ag­ing Design & Engineering

Comparallel — Knight Lab | Data Interaction Design

About the Project Com­par­a­l­lel is a project in con­junc­tion with North­west­ern’s Knight Lab. Our team was tasked with mak­ing “open data” (e.g. the data the US Gov­ern­ment freely releas­es) more acces­si­ble and action­able for jour­nal­ists. Com­par­a­l­lel can be found …

Comparallel — Knight Lab | Data Interaction Design
Com­par­a­l­lel — Knight Lab | Data Inter­ac­tion Design

NBA Hackathon | Data Viz & Analysis

About the Project I was one of 200 stu­dents out of 1000+ appli­cants to par­tic­i­pate in the NBA’s first annu­al hackathon. Over an entire day of cod­ing, myself and two team­mates devel­oped a new met­ric to quantify …

NBA Hackathon | Data Viz & Analysis
NBA Hackathon | Data Viz & Analysis

Small Scale Bioreactor | Product Design Engineering

About the Project For my senior cap­stone at UC San Diego, I, along with 3 oth­er team mem­bers (1 engi­neer, 2 biotech­nol­o­gists), part­nered with a local biotech com­pa­ny, His­to­gen, to engi­neer a small-scale biore­ac­tor. His­to­gen, interested …

Small Scale Bioreactor | Product Design Engineering
Small Scale Biore­ac­tor | Prod­uct Design Engineering

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