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ismailmdzani/README.md

Hi there, I'm Ismail Md Zani 👋

🎓 Final-year Mathematics undergraduate at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
📊 Aspiring Data Analyst with interests in data analytics, business intelligence and quantitative analysis
💡 Skilled in Power BI, Excel, SQL, Python, DAX and data modelling
🔬 Experienced in quantitative research, statistical analysis and polynomial regression
🎯 Building practical analytics solutions through dashboards, SQL analysis and data-driven research
🗣️ Languages: Malay, English


📊 Portfolio Projects

📊 Retail Sales Performance Dashboard

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Tools: Microsoft Power BI • DAX • Data Modelling • Data Visualization

Built a three-page interactive Power BI dashboard to analyse retail sales performance across 2024–2025, covering revenue, profitability, product performance, regional trends, returns and customer loyalty.

Key areas explored:

  • Executive KPIs for total sales, gross profit, profit margin and orders
  • Monthly sales trends and regional performance
  • Product and category profitability
  • Product-level sales and margin analysis
  • Return value, return rate and return reasons
  • Customer loyalty-tier sales performance
  • Fact and dimension-based semantic data model

🛒 SQL E-Commerce Analysis

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Tools: SQL • SQLite • DB Browser for SQLite

Analysed a Brazilian e-commerce dataset to explore customer behaviour, sales performance, product trends, revenue and freight costs.

Key areas explored:

  • Customer and order analysis
  • Revenue and monthly sales trends
  • Product category performance
  • Freight cost analysis
  • Business insights from transactional data

📈 Maven Toys Sales & Inventory Dashboard

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Tools: Microsoft Excel • Data Model • DAX • PivotTables • PivotCharts

Built an interactive Excel dashboard to analyse sales performance, profitability, product trends, store performance and inventory health.

Key areas explored:

  • Monthly revenue and profit trends
  • Product category and product performance
  • Store and location performance
  • Inventory value and stock status
  • Interactive filtering using slicers and timeline

☎️ JPD Call Centre Performance Dashboard

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Tools: Microsoft Excel • Advanced Formulas • Named Ranges • PivotTables • Charts

Completed an advanced coursework-based Excel dashboard analysing 46,380 call centre records to monitor operational KPIs, service targets and agent performance.

Key areas explored:

  • Monthly call volume and service performance
  • Complaint rates and customer satisfaction
  • Call resolution and abandonment rates
  • Agent performance against operational targets
  • Interactive month selection and scrollable agent analysis

⚙️ Weekly Timesheet VBA Automation

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Tools: Microsoft Excel • VBA • Excel Macros • Named Ranges • Formulas

Completed a coursework-based Excel VBA project that automates weekly timesheet creation, daily pay calculations and weekend rates.

Key features:

  • Creates a new weekly timesheet automatically
  • Collects the week-commencing date using an input box
  • Calculates weekday pay using a named hourly rate
  • Applies a 1.5× rate for Saturday and Sunday
  • Generates daily formulas and the weekly total
  • Runs through a worksheet button or keyboard shortcut

🏆 Achievements

🥉 Bronze Award — IWP-IRC 2026

Awarded for research on rainfall trend analysis using polynomial regression.

📄 First-Author Research Publication

Published research on rainfall trends in Pahang, Malaysia using quantitative modelling and polynomial regression.


🔬 Research & Publication

Role: First Author

Research focused on rainfall trend analysis for Bentong and Kuantan, Pahang, using polynomial regression and quantitative model evaluation.

Research work included:

  • Analysed daily rainfall data and long-term rainfall patterns
  • Developed polynomial regression models of degrees 1–5
  • Compared model performance using RMSE
  • Evaluated numerical stability across polynomial degrees
  • Applied quantitative model evaluation to select an appropriate model
  • Used GNU Octave and Excel for analysis and data preparation

🎓 Certifications & Professional Learning

Microsoft

SAP

  • 🏢 SAP S/4HANA Course Completion
    • Foundational exposure to SAP S/4HANA
    • Enterprise Resource Planning concepts
    • SAP business processes and enterprise systems

Macquarie University

University of California, Davis

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

  • 📈 Data Analytics for Organisation
    • Data analytics fundamentals
    • Data-driven decision making
    • Organisational analytics applications

🛠️ Technical Skills

📊 Business Intelligence & Data Visualization

Power BI Microsoft Excel

Skills: Power BI • Dashboard Design • KPI Reporting • Data Visualization • Interactive Reports • Data Storytelling


🧩 Data Modelling & Transformation

Skills: DAX • Power Query • ETL • Data Transformation • Data Modelling • Star Schema • Fact & Dimension Tables • Data Relationships


🗄️ Databases & SQL

SQL SQLite

Skills: SQL • SQLite • Joins • Subqueries • Aggregations • GROUP BY • Data Filtering • Relational Data Analysis


🐍 Python & Data Analysis

Python Pandas NumPy Matplotlib

Skills: Python • Pandas • NumPy • Matplotlib • Data Analysis • Data Preparation


📈 Excel & Automation

Skills: Advanced Excel • PivotTables • PivotCharts • INDEX-MATCH • Advanced Formulas • Data Model • DAX • VBA • Excel Macros • Slicers • Dashboard Development


📐 Quantitative & Research Methods

Skills: Statistical Analysis • Polynomial Regression • RMSE • Quantitative Research • Model Evaluation • Trend Analysis


🏢 Enterprise Systems

SAP

Foundational Learning: SAP S/4HANA • Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) • Enterprise Business Processes


🧰 Tools & Platforms

GitHub Jupyter

Tools: Power BI Desktop • Microsoft Excel • DB Browser for SQLite • GNU Octave • Jupyter Notebook • GitHub


🎯 Career Interests

Interested in internship opportunities where I can apply analytical and quantitative skills to real-world business problems, particularly in:

Data Analytics • Business Intelligence • Business Analysis • Risk Analytics


📫 Connect with Me

LinkedIn

Email

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  1. SQL-Ecommerce-Analysis SQL-Ecommerce-Analysis Public

    SQL project analyzing an e-commerce dataset to uncover customer behavior, sales performance and business insights using SQLite.

  2. Maven-Toys-Sales-Inventory-Dashboard Maven-Toys-Sales-Inventory-Dashboard Public

    Interactive Excel dashboard analysing Maven Toys sales performance, product trends, store performance and inventory health.

  3. JPD-Call-Centre-Performance-Dashboard JPD-Call-Centre-Performance-Dashboard Public

    Advanced Excel coursework dashboard analysing 46,380 call centre records, service targets and agent performance.

  4. Weekly-Timesheet-VBA-Automation Weekly-Timesheet-VBA-Automation Public

    Excel VBA coursework project automating weekly timesheet creation, daily pay calculations and weekend rates.

  5. PowerBI-Retail-Sales-Performance-Dashboard PowerBI-Retail-Sales-Performance-Dashboard Public

    Interactive Power BI dashboard analysing retail sales, profitability, products, regions, returns and customer loyalty across 2024–2025.