COVID-Era Employment Trends Across Canada in R

As part of an analytics project for a client, I used R and various libraries to import, clean, and analyze datasets related to labor market statistics in British Columbia. This project involves reading data from CSV files, performing data cleansing operations, merging datasets, and generating visualizations such as box plots and a bar chart showing the monthly change in employment across Canadian provinces. The analysis focuses on specific sectors, including accommodation and food services, wholesale and retail trade, and other services, providing valuable insights into the labor market dynamics....

May 2, 2024 · 7 min · Stann-Omar Jones

Optimizing User Engagement and Revenue Using SQL

In this project, I generated insights specifically tailored for a web team within a prominent political advocacy organization. The queries cover various aspects such as user engagement, revenue analysis, and page views over time. Additionally, I designed visualizations in Tableau and provided recommendations based on my findings. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Summary This section outlines the steps taken to explore and analyze web analytics data using SQL queries. The analysis provides insights into user engagement, popular pages, device segmentation, and referral sources....

April 15, 2024 · 8 min · Stann-Omar Jones

Global COVID Tracking Dashboard

Context From 2020 to 2021, I volunteered at the COVID Tracking Project, where our efforts significantly enhanced the accuracy of data collection in the USA. By auditing, compiling, and analyzing sub-national, daily data sources, we delivered accurate, real-time insights to government officials. Our team built over 50 collaborative datasets and corrected inconsistencies in more than 40,000 data points, informing life-saving national testing and immunization strategies to combat COVID-19. Dashboard This dashboard, inspired by Alex the Analyst, exemplifies the impact of our work in providing reliable data that informed public health decisions worldwide, playing a crucial role in creating transparent and globally accessible COVID-19 statistics....

April 2, 2024 · 1 min · Stann-Omar Jones

Using Virtual Environments in Python

Introduction As a Python developer, managing dependencies and ensuring a clean development environment has always been a top priority for me. Virtual environments have become my go-to tool for handling project-specific dependencies, avoiding conflicts, and maintaining a tidy global Python environment. In this blog post, I’ll share the benefits I’ve experienced using virtual environments and walk you through a quick tutorial on using virtualenvwrapper, an extension that has significantly enhanced my workflow....

March 31, 2024 · 3 min · Stann-Omar Jones

How to Read Cohort Tables: A Step-by-Step Guide

Cohort tables offer valuable insights into customer behavior by grouping them based on shared attributes, in this case, acquisition date or date of first purchase. They are fantastic for identifying whether you have a retention problem or a user acquisition problem and can allow marketers to understand user behavior through experiments. Learning to read these tables can be tricky at first but effectively empowers you to analyze customer engagement, retention, and acquisition trends....

March 4, 2024 · 3 min · Stann-Omar Jones

King County, Washington Housing Market Dashboard: Trends and Insights

King County, WA Housing Insights Line Chart: The line chart displays daily prices from May 1, 2014, to May 1, 2015, illustrating a general upward trend over the year with some fluctuations. Housing prices rise from an average of $0.5M to $1M by November 2014, peaking at $1.3M in May 2015. The zip codes with the highest average price, ranging from $0.9M to $1M, include 98109, 98105, 98004, and 98040....

February 23, 2024 · 3 min · Stann-Omar Jones

Data Structures/Objects in Python: An Overview

As a Data Scientist at the ShapeUp Project, I’ve been working on data analysis projects at Shape Up The Vote Data Project that activate barbershops and salons as voter engagement hubs in 13 states with 5,500 participating shops by 2024. We use relational organizing principles and remote communication through text and phone banking. My role involves collecting, cleaning, and enriching data on potential participants to identify the best shops to contact....

February 1, 2024 · 5 min · Stann-Omar Jones

Differentiating Between Functions, Methods, and Attributes in Python

Python can be a bit confusing at times, especially when it comes to understanding the differences between functions, methods, and attributes. Let’s break down these concepts to make them clearer. Functions Functions are more general than methods. They operate in the global environment and can work across all classes of objects. Functions are defined using the def keyword and can be called without being tied to any particular object instance....

January 15, 2024 · 2 min · Stann-Omar Jones