Ahsen Polat

Ahsen studied ecotrophology at the HAW-Hamburg and already got her first contact with data analysis in the form of market research projects during her study. This included the analysis of eating behavior in the canteen. This involved data collection and extensive data analysis using the "Sawtooth" software, which she was able to familiarize herself with intuitively. Beside that Ahsen worked a lot with SPSS, which is a software for statistical data analysis as part of the Empirical Social Research and Statistics module in the degree programme.

During her study and afterwards, Ahsen pursued various activities and realized that there is a way how to finally turn her passion for analysis and numbers into a profession as a data analyst. The six-month internship at Nestle in quality assurance played a big part in finding her passion and shaping the hard and soft skills. Above all, this includes communicating with customers as well as with colleagues across departments. Regularly analyzing complaints based on collected data and presenting them to higher authorities was part of the daily business. Presenting pure data in an understandable and interesting way was a great success. Thanks to that internship, she was able to familiarise herself with some SAP tools, which was surprisingly interesting.

With an emphasis on nutritional counselling, Ahsen is also accostumed to consulting methods and client interactions.

Outside of work, her enthusiasm for sports and food/nutrition keeps her busy; or a new skill, like a foreign language, is being acquired.

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Wed 22 Jan 2025 | Ahsen Polat
Absolute vs. Relative Pfade
Während wir im Training mit geteilten Dateien aus dem Dateisystem der The Information Lab arbeiten, kommt es öfters dazu, dass nicht alle die gewünschten Dateien finden, auf die der Trainer verweist, weil diese sich meistens in mehreren Unterordnern befinden
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Wed 29 Jan 2025 | Ahsen Polat
Formatting with Default Properties in Tableau: Save Time and Effort
Are you also annoyed when building a dashboard or chart and using metrics that appear on multiple sheets, and you have to adjust the desired formatting on each sheet every time? It takes a lot of time and requires many repetitive clicks
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Wed 22 Jan 2025 | Ahsen Polat
Vom Training zur Praxis: Die wöchentlichen Kundenprojekte
Nach den Freitagsprojekten ist die Kohorte bereit, sich an die Kundenprojekte (auch Labore genannt) zu wagen
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Mon 20 Jan 2025 | Ahsen Polat
A Makeover Monday Update: Visualizing Marvel Movie Success
One Makeovermonday topics related to the successes of the Marvel Movies. In order to evaluate the success of a film, various metrics come into play, as these are crucial for answering the question. These criteria range from Audience Score, Critical Success to Percent of Budget Recovered
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Sun 12 Jan 2025 | Ahsen Polat
Creating a Dual-View Dashboard for My DSDE9 Application
The "What did it take to get into DSDE9" blog post from my cohort is now online, and I had mixed emotions reading through it. On one hand, I felt very proud of how I managed to create an interactive and well-designed dashboard despite my limited background knowledge of Tableau
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Sun 12 Jan 2025 | Ahsen Polat
Creating a Dumbbell Chart in Tableau
A dumbbell chart in Tableau is a diagram that displays two data points for each category, making it particularly useful for visualizing differences between two variables. One weeks Makeovermondays topic related to the successes of the Marvel Movies
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Wed 08 Jan 2025 | Ahsen Polat
Tableau and Power BI: A Terminology Guide
Following our introduction to Power BI and its associated tools this week, we frequently encountered various terminologies and functions that differ from what we previously learned in Tableau and Tableau Prep. I've compiled a comparison of the most important terms in the table below
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Sun 05 Jan 2025 | Ahsen Polat
Ein hilfreicher Pfad: Der besondere Bewerbungsprozess
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