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Reading a Messy Ticket Queue: A Methodology Walkthrough

20h ago · 6 min read · A practice project demonstrating my process: I created a generic, synthetic support-ticket queue (issue type, status, priority, created date) with realistic messiness built in, and analyzed it end to

Analyzing 21 Years of Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championships: A Data-Driven Study

1d ago · 6 min read · Overview I built a PostgreSQL database analyzing 18 World Championship tournaments (2004-2025) to uncover patterns in competitive Yu-Gi-Oh!. This article presents the key findings from analyzing 280+

Spilling the tea on my Goodreads reading history using Python

4d ago · 6 min read · The Moment It Clicked I've always been a reader. Like, the kind of person who has a book in their bag at all times, who thinks "just one more chapter" at 2 AM, and who has strong opinions about whethe

Building a Yu-Gi-Oh TCG Market Analysis Dashboard in Tableau

4d ago · 4 min read · Introduction As someone interested in both trading card games and data analytics, I wanted to explore how Yu-Gi-Oh! Structure Deck values changed over time, and whether popularity correlated with coll

From Technical Support and Product Operations to Data Analyst: How I Unlocked the Power of Data (And Why It Feels Like Solving the Millennium Puzzle)

5d ago · 7 min read · For a long time, I thought data analytics was someone else's job. Not mine. Not the person who spent years answering support tickets, untangling customer frustrations, and becoming the go-to subject m