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|I’m Vaanya.
I build small tools for messy systems!
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about me
numbers and stories are not opposites.
Vaanya Kapur is a seventeen-year-old author living in Bangkok, Thailand. She wrote her first novel at thirteen, mostly in the margins of her math homework. She is equally in love with literature, economics, data science, and anything that lets her ask “why”.
Vaanya can usually be found with a book in one hand and a spreadsheet open on her laptop, convinced that numbers and stories are not opposites but siblings.
Right now, I’m an IB student at International School Bangkok building projects around local problems: commute risk, air quality, tourism spillovers, crop prices, student writing, and economic decision-making.
toolkit
things I use to build, explain, and argue betterdata
turning messy datasets into useful decisions
Data AnalysisData CleaningMachine LearningNLPRegressionMapping
systems
thinking about incentives, cities, risk, and trade
EconomicsDashboard DesignClimate RiskTourism ModelsTariff Analysis
voice
explaining, arguing, mentoring, and writing clearly
DebateMUNWritingPublic SpeakingMentorship
selected work
project archive
Click a filter, open a case file, and replace the placeholder images with your real thumbnails later.
TWMData Science2026
Tariff Whack-a-Mole
Supply Chain Leakage to Thailand
A data project asking whether U.S. tariffs on China may have shifted manufacturing imports toward Thailand.
PythonRegressionTradeSimulation
EVData Science2026
Monte Carlo: Thailand's EV Race
Simulating uncertainty in Thailand’s EV transition
A Kaggle notebook simulating how Thailand’s EV market could shift under policy deadlines, subsidies, and competition between Japanese and Chinese automakers.
PythonMonte CarloEVsStock Simulation
NVIData + Literature2026
Narrative Volatility Index
Turning story pacing into data
A notebook that measures how much the emotional tone of a novel changes across the story.
PythonNLPSentimentLiterature
SRBWeb App2026
Safe Route Bangkok
Student commute flood risk dashboard
A web dashboard that helps students understand whether rain or flooding could affect their commute.
ReactTypeScriptLeafletOpen-Meteo
NWCWeb App2025
ISB Novel Writing Challenge
Interactive writing workspace
A cozy website that guides middle school writers through planning, drafting, revising, and publishing. I have mentored 50+ students, with over 30 students having successfully published.
ReactViteLocal StorageUX
HGIData Science2026
Hidden Gems Tourism Index
Optimizing domestic tourism spillovers
A data project ranking lesser-known Thai provinces with strong future tourism potential.
PythonIndex BuildingTourismMapping
PM25Web App2026
Bangkok PM2.5 Route Risk
Air pollution dashboard for student commutes
A route-based dashboard that turns PM2.5 pollution data into practical commute recommendations.
ReactAir QualityPredictionMaps
CROPMachine Learning2026
Thai Crop Price Climate Simulator
Rice, cassava, weather shocks
A machine learning notebook exploring how abnormal rainfall and temperature may affect Thai crop prices.
PythonRandom ForestGradient BoostingClimate
SAIData Science2026
Stylometric Author ID
Identifying writing style through text patterns
A Kaggle notebook that explores whether authors can be identified through patterns in their writing style.
PythonNLPStylometryClassification
SETData Science2026
SET Event Study
Measuring how markets react to major events
A Kaggle notebook studying how Thai stock prices respond around a specific market event.
PythonFinanceEvent StudyAbnormal Returns
CPIData Science2026
Thailand E-Commerce Price Tracker
Digital price pressure from Lazada data
A mock Digital CPI dashboard using Lazada product data to study online prices, discounts, and product categories.
PythonNLPPricingDashboards
KTBWeb App2026
Krung Thep Blackspots
Thailand accident hotspot mapper
An accident hotspot mapper that studies dangerous road areas and visualizes them through a clean dashboard.
ReactMappingClusteringSafety
TEBook2026
The End
Dystopian novel
A dystopian world where the Earth has stopped rotating, exploring how society becomes segregated based on socioeconomic status.
DystopianSocioeconomic InequalityClimate
EEBook2026
Emerging Echoes
Dystopian novel
A dystopian story about AI taking over the world, exploring AI ethics, technological dependence, and control.
DystopianAI EthicsArtificial Intelligence
WRSBook2026
Where the River Sleeps
Climate speculative fiction
A climate speculative story told through a dual storyline connecting a speculative future with the Bengal Famine.
ClimateSpeculative FictionBengal Famine
community map
little worlds I helped build
A cleaner map of the spaces that shaped me: writing rooms, debate rooms, research folders, club meetings, and the occasional spreadsheet that got out of hand.
writing / mentorship / website
Novel Writing Challenge
Lead Mentor + Author
A writing space I helped build for younger students. I led sessions on planning, drafting, and revising, while also creating a website that made the challenge feel more doable and less intimidating. I have mentored 50+ students, with over 30 students having successfully published. Myself having published 3 novels on various issues, from climate change to AI ethics.
mentorshipstory arcsstudent tools
accolades
A few awards, programs, and recognitions that shaped how I think about research, public speaking, sustainability, statistics, and local problem-solving.
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researchWinner · Jan 2026
Lumiere Scholar Essay Award
Received the Rising Scholars Award and a scholarship to participate in a research program. Wrote a paper on applications of quantum qubits, judged by an Oxford physics professor.
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sustainabilitySpecial Recognition
UN Empower E-Mobility Challenge
Received special recognition for my e-mobility pitch and a work experience offer in renewable energy. Worked with MuvMi and learned about EV tuk-tuks in Thailand alongside university students.
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debateFreshman year
Best Delegate, BKKMUN
Earned Best Delegate at BKKMUN, one of Thailand’s national-level MUN conferences, as one of the youngest recipients.
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speechIASAS Speech & Debate · 2026
Top 10 Best Speakers
Ranked among the Top 10 speakers at IASAS Speech and Debate, engaging with historical, international, and regionally relevant topics.
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speech2026
IASAS Speech & Debate Silver
Earned Silver as part of one of the top teams in Southeast Asia.
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statisticsUNESCAP · 23 Jul 2026
Asia-Pacific Stats Café
Participated in a UNESCAP session on a whole-of-society approach to official statistics, from concepts to practices.
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statisticsUNESCAP · 07 Jul 2026
Asia-Pacific Stats Café
Participated in a UNESCAP session on embedding quality assurance as a foundation for trust in official statistics.
field notes
small thoughts I keep returning to
Why numbers and stories feel related
I started a crochet bag and realized the pattern was just a loop: repeat until it's deep enough. Same shape as the code I write. I keep wondering if everything I care about is secretly the same problem wearing different clothes.
Currently thinking about
I tried to measure the pacing of a novel: how fast its mood swings from one page to the next. I still am unsure whether it is possible to quantify good writing.
A useful question
My climate-shock simulator predicts the price of rice, but it has nothing to say about the person who grows it. Which of us that's a failure of?
contact
say hello, नमस्ते, or สวัสดีค่ะ.
reach out :)