Canyu Yang

Data Analyst / Business Analyst

SUMMARY

● Professional and insightful data analyst with over 5 years of experience and with MS of Computer Information
Systems from BU.
● Experienced with data collection and aggregation from different sources like AWS (S3, SQS), MongoDB, and
MYSQL DB using Python; and data cleaning, transforming, analyzing using Numpy, Panda, Matplotlib packages.
● Strong skills in managing data and relational databases, and interpreting data using MYSQL.
● Solid knowledge with statistics like Regression Analysis and hypothesis analysis including A/B test.
● Adept at using R for statistical computing and R packages like ggplot for data visualization.
● Skilled in data visualization using TABLEAU and Power BI to generate graphical representation of data.
● Practiced with data mining through R, Weka and JMP to find predictable correlation, patterns or rules.
● Facilitated with Machine Learning knowledge using Python and Weka.
● Worked with AWS Cloud platform and its features like SQS, S3, CloudWatch, ElastiCache, DynamoDB and IAM
etc.
● Proven ability to learn unfamiliar material and techniques quickly, exhibit great attention to detail, execute under
aggressive deadlines, and adapt quickly to changing circumstances and systems to maintain strategic vision of the
organization and link it with everyday work.
● A wonderful team player who values collaboration and communication, eager and possesses a very strong work
ethic and can relate and work efficiently with diverse groups.
● An enthusiastic individual with extensive experience in Data Analysis, Data Manipulation, Data Extraction,
Research and Reporting in different formats and from various sources.

SKILLS

● Programming Languages: MySQL, Python, R, Hadoop (Hive, Pig), Flask.

● Data visualization: Tableau, Power BI, R, Python(Pandas, Numpy, Matplotlib)
● Cloud Computing: AWS
● MS-Office: MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint
● Operating systems: Windows, Mac, Linux
● Project management: Agile, scrum, waterfall
● ETL: Informatica Power Center, Informatica Power Exchange, Google Data flow, SSIS, AWS Glue

EDUCATION

BOSTON UNIVERSITY Boston, MA

Master of Computer and Information System-Data Analysis

DREXEL UNIVERSITY Philadelphia, PA

B.S. Environmental Science

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

BOSE’s PRODUCTS SALES DATA ANALYTICS PROJECT, Boston, MA

 Data Analysis and Mining Sep 2019 – Till now
● Collected data from website, AWS，and performed data cleaning and wrangling with
Python.
● Aggregated data into MYSQL tables and organized specific campaign periods data with advanced queries.
● Performed Correlation and regression analysis to explore possible trends or relationship among revenue, product
category, time, product number, gross margins of products, sales campaign metrics, location, etc. using Python.
● Responsible for requirement gathering, business process flow, business process modelling and analysis. 
● Determining KPI’s and calibrate quality by presenting value additions and prospective services.
● Worked as a liaison between the technical team and the clients in understanding the system. 
● Coordinate with various stakeholders, experience owners and data teams at enterprise level for building a
centralized data store, which aids the Sr. Decision Science Analyst to deep dive and provide broader insights.
● Experience in reporting, data mining, and ad-hoc analysis.
● Design and development of Tableau dashboard covering metrics from various sources.
● Extensive utilization of data blend across multiple data sources to extract maximum business insights.
● Analyse existing Tableau dashboards and provide recommendations and areas to improve the performance for faster
access of dashboards to the business partners.
● Transition of Tableau Dashboards to enterprise IT team for post-production maintenance.
● Design and develop info-graphic BI solutions to convey business stories that captivates the stakeholders and executives.

Kohl’s E-COMMERCE 2015-2018 DATA ANALYSIS PROJECT, Boston, MA

Web Analytics and Data Analysis Aug 2018 - Aug 2019
● Analyzed current performance of Khols’ e-commerce checkout process using Google Analytics (GA). Confirmed
business goals and formulate A/B test hypothesis, variations etc.
● Performed multipage testing A/B test and analyzed result data considering metrics like percentage increase with python.
● Retrieved, transformed, and cleaned customer data from various sources such as Website, Mysql, Excel, AWS S3
BUCKET, AWS SQS, AWS Cloud Watch, Google Stack driver, MongoDB, Internal app, Kafka, and Redis with python.
● Developed use case diagram and relational diagram; created database tables with constraints, primary keys, foreign keys,
etc. using MYSQL.
● Loaded data from python and data files into MYSQL tables for storing; wrote advanced queries indexes, triggers, stored
procedures for data extraction, transformation, etc.
● Created data visualization dashboards with different kinds of charts and reports with Tableau.
● Performed regression analysis to understand relationships between concerned parameters, time and categorical features
by correlation matrix, scatter plots and boxplots with Python.
● Generated comprehensive reports about the performance of current checkout process, prediction of future trend and
analytical insight for process operation and marketing strategy.
● Tracked and monitored checkout process performance by continuously collecting GA and customer data with Cron Jobs.
● Implemented best practices, standards and procedures to encourage team consistency, efficiency, and
maintainability.

GREAT BIG DIGITAL AGENCY SELLING DATABASE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, Philadelphia PA

Database Design and Implementation with SQL June 2017 -Mar 2018
● Analyzed the work flow of client company’s selling and determined structural business rules based on use cases.
● Design and developed conceptual and logical Entity‐Relationship Diagrams with LucidChart.
● Set up and developed databases by creating tables using MYSQL with primary keys and foreign keys based on ER
diagrams.
● Wrote informative SQL queries for data extraction, such as parameterized stored procedures, index, and triggers.
● Digitally mark each part of the website that potentially generates data such as link, photo, video, and form.
● Input data into a database on a web application, and extract data via restful APIs using Python for data cleaning and data
analytics with Numpy, Panda, Matplotlib packages.
● Involved in Backups, Disaster recovery methods, High availability methods, creating Emails, jobs, alerts and in
performance tuning, used SQL profiler. 
● Provided SQL support, evaluated changes to database schema and assisted in updating the ER diagram.
● Leveraging the power Excel (VLOOKUPS, formulas, Pivot Tables and Charts, Power Query, Power Pivot, etc.) for data
visualization and analysis to provide insight on the data.
 ● Used Tableau and Power BI server as a front-end BI tool and MYSQL as a back-end database to design and develop
workbooks, dashboards, global filter page, and complex parameters based calculations

URBAN OUTFITTERS, ANTHROPOLOGIE GROUP SALE DATA ANALYTICS PROJECT,

Philadelphia, PA
Database Develop and data analytics May 2016 - Dec 2016
● Retrieved data from website, physical stores and mobile apps; unify data types and cleaned data with Python.
● Loaded data into an existing table of MySQL with Python and create index, triggers, stored procedures.
● Generated results based on product type, location and seasons with advanced MYSQL queries.
● Utilized Power BI to visualize tables export from MySQL, interpreted the plots and prepared part of reports.
● Performed correlation analysis with reference of previous dataset, and generated plots using R to forecast fashion, color
and selling trends.
●  Performed Text Mining on sales related notes, product comments and other textual data at different points in the
workflow of sales and correlating the text data to denial or approval of an application using Python.
● Provided possible hypotheses based on data analytic results and made further analytic plans.

CHENGDU INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU METEOROLOGY OF CHINA METEOROLOGICAL

ADMINISTRATION，CLIMATE CHANGE IN QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU PROJECT, Chengdu, China
Data Analytics and Paper review Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
● Collected hundreds of related papers and filtered them into 77 in total, which wrote based on 4 measuring methods：
ice core, tree rings, lake sentiments, and station monitoring.
● Designed an Excel table filled with information and data picked up from all papers in time order.
● Loaded Excel data using MYSQL; wrote queries to generate and export tables focusing on 4 measuring methods, time,
part of Tibetan Plateau, temperature, etc.
● Compare temperature and precipitation data shown by ice core, tree rings, lake sentiments, and station monitoring with
MATLAB Charts.
● Performed regression analysis between time and temperature, time and precipitation of all 4 measuring methods with R.
● Made a clear and comprehensive presentation to all classmates and professors with PowerPoint.