Abel Salau

Aspiring Data Analyst | Business Analyst

About

Myself

I am currenly a student at the University of Waterloo, studying Mathematical Economics. I have a keen interest in the use of data and data visualization in understanding the world around us. I created this site to display some of the projects I've worked on / am currently working on. Hope you like it :).

Portfolio

Recent Works
20 out of the 130+ countries featured in this dataset
Python library based Data Exploration project

World Happiness and COVID

I webscrapped data on from several sources such as:
Worldometer, John Hopkins University CSSEGIS, and the World Happiness Report
to provide a Data set on countries ranked by happiness with information on their population and COVID-19

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Excel / Power BI Data Visualization

Personal Finance Dashboard

An interactive dashboard based on month to month income, spending and budget that can be easily tailored to any user. A minimalist design only showing the most important information first.

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Visualized from September - December 2021

Work Experience

Past & Current Jobs
  • Backpacker College, Inc - System Administrator

    Worked to continuously improve and maintain digital curated Backpacker College content within new and established systems. I was tasked with creating automation scripts to streamline their integration with partner platforms such as Guesty, AirBnB, TripAdvisor and VRBO.

  • Rise in STEM, Y.A.C - Research and Evaluation Assistant

    Providing support for general members transition into post-secondary and the workforce. Involved and primarily responsible for research, data collation and training for the purpose of assigned projects such as: connecting general members to our community networks and various provided support systems.

  • Y.M.C.A - NYLD Mentor

    Planned and directed a number of company events that invloved budget and venue sourcing, worked with trained social workers to tutor and mentor newcomers and at-risk youth. I was individually mentoring with over 7 mentees at a time and worked to increase their participation and involvement in the community.

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