Portfolio Project Ideas for Data Careers
1. Data Analytics: Sales Dashboard & Insights
Tools: Excel, SQL, Power BI/Tableau
Data: Kaggle Superstore Sales
Showcase: KPI dashboard, trend analysis, region-wise performance
Deliverable: Dashboard + 1-pg summary report with key insights
2. Data Science: Predicting Employee Attrition
Tools: Python (pandas, scikit-learn)
Data: IBM HR Analytics Attrition Dataset
Showcase: Data wrangling, classification model, feature importance
Deliverable: Jupyter Notebook + model evaluation visuals
3. Machine Learning: House Price Prediction
Tools: Python (scikit-learn, XGBoost)
Data: Ames Housing Dataset
Showcase: Regression modeling, feature selection, model tuning
Deliverable: GitHub repo + performance metrics (RMSE, R²)
4. Artificial Intelligence: Sentiment Analysis
Tools: Python (NLTK/spaCy, Flask or Streamlit)
Data: Twitter Sentiment140 Dataset
Showcase: Text cleaning, vectorization, classifier (Naive Bayes or BERT)
Deliverable: Streamlit app or chatbot + blog-style summary