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Two projects on real data, one internship and the tools named the way postings name them. The dashboard project leads because it had a user.
The sample
PRIYA RAMAN
Chennai, Tamil Nadu · priya.raman@email.com · +91 98765 43210 · linkedin.com/in/priya-raman
Summary
B.Sc Statistics graduate (2025) aiming for a Data Analyst role, skilled in SQL, Power BI and Excel. Built a sales dashboard for a local retailer that cut his weekly report from a day to an hour.
Education
B.Sc Statistics, Loyola College, Chennai2022 – 2025 · CGPA 8.4
Class XII, Tamil Nadu State Board2022 · 91%
Skills
Analysis: SQL (MySQL), Excel (pivot tables, XLOOKUP), Python (pandas)
Visualisation: Power BI, Tableau
Other: data cleaning, dashboard
Projects
Retail sales dashboard | Power BI, SQL, Excel | SoloDec 2024
Built a Power BI dashboard on two years of sales (48,000 bills) for a family-run electronics shop in Chennai.
Wrote MySQL queries to remove duplicate bills and join stock with sales; checked every monthly total against the Excel ledger.
The owner now reads the weekly report in an hour instead of a day, and cut his order of the three slowest-selling items.
Restaurant ratings analysis | Python, Tableau | Team of 2Apr 2024
Analysed 9,500 restaurant listings from a public dataset with Python (pandas) to see what goes with higher ratings.
Built a four-view Tableau story; restaurants taking online orders were rated 0.3 points higher on average in this data.
Presented it at the department data day; it was picked for the college newsletter.
Internship
Data Analyst Intern, Brightpath Staffing, ChennaiJun 2024 – Aug 2024
Merged 12 monthly hiring reports into one Excel tracker with XLOOKUP and pivot tables.
Flagged 340 duplicate candidate records during data cleaning, removed before the quarterly review.
Certifications
Google Data Analytics Certificate, Coursera, 2024
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What data analyst postings ask for
The share of 124 open postings in this field, across all experience levels, whose requirements name each skill. A tick means the sample shows it. List only the ones you can show; the rest are what to learn next.
- ✓Analytics32%
- ✓SQL26%
- ✓Power BI17%
- ✓Excel15%
- ✓Tableau15%
- ✓Python14%
- ·Stakeholder management10%
- ·Agile8%
Counted on 18 October 2026 from postings of the previous 45 days. How we counted, and other fields.
Why it works
1
One project with a real user
A shop, a club, a department. Data someone acted on beats a Kaggle notebook nobody opened.
2
Name the query language and the tool
“SQL (MySQL)”, “Power BI”, “Excel (pivot tables, XLOOKUP)”. Recruiters filter on the exact names.
3
Put the finding in the bullet
What the data showed and what changed because of it, not only that you “performed analysis”.
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