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Alit Virgiawan

• Feb 5

This sheet helps you see if your products are quietly becoming more expensive and killing your profit.

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Kareem Timilehin

• Mar 10

Designed this product page to do one thing well: convert visitors into buyers. Clear value proposition, structured benefits, review proof, bundle offers, and a frictionless buy box every section is built with conversion psychology in mind.

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Akinkunmi Ayo

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• Mar 10

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Andrés Martínez

• Mar 9

In this project, I analyzed five years of historical sales data from a global retail dataset to understand how discount strategies impact profit margins across products and categories.

Using Excel dashboards and Python data analysis, I explored the relationship between discount levels and profitability and identified several products where excessive discounting generated negative profit margins.

The analysis revealed quick opportunities to improve profitability by slightly adjusting discount levels. In many cases, a small reduction in discount was enough to move sales from loss-making to break-even or profitable transactions.

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Irina Zharkova

• Mar 10

Advanced Trading Journal & Risk Management Dashboard

Problem: Client needed a robust system to log trades and track win/loss ratios; spreadsheets were too clunky. Solution: Engineered a Notion Trading Journal. Features relational databases linking trades to strategies, Formula 2.0 for automatic PnL calculations, and a clean analytical dashboard. Impact: Deep insights into performance and profitable strategies.