Data Analyst Program

Portfolio · Week 4 of 4 · 6–7 hours

Project Documentation and Publishing Your Portfolio

Publish all three projects on GitHub and present them professionally.

Learning objectives

By the end of this week you will be able to:

  • Create a GitHub account and a repository for each project.
  • Write a professional README for each project.
  • Build a simple portfolio page with GitHub Pages or a profile README.
  • Describe your projects on a resume and LinkedIn.

Lessons

Project Documentation

Use the eight-section README from the Project course for every project, and add these portfolio touches:

  • A dashboard screenshot near the top, so readers see the result immediately.
  • The executive summary right under the title.
  • A "Skills demonstrated" line (for example: SQL joins and subqueries, Power Query, DAX, data cleaning).
  • Links to the live dashboard, the notebook and the SQL files.

Read your README as if you were a busy hiring manager. Can you tell what the project is, what you did and what you found in 30 seconds?

Publishing on GitHub

GitHub is a website for storing and sharing project files. Employers often check it.

  1. Create a free account with a professional username (ideally your name).
  2. Click New repository. Name it clearly (bike-share-rider-analysis), make it Public and tick Add a README file.
  3. Click Add file > Upload files and drag in your project folders. Write a short commit message ("Add cleaned data and SQL queries") and commit.
  4. Edit README.md directly on GitHub and use the Preview tab to check the formatting.
  5. Add topics (tags) such as sql, power-bi, data-analysis in the About section.

Portfolio page: create a special repository named exactly the same as your username; its README becomes your profile page. Use it to introduce yourself and link to your three projects. For a more designed page, turn on GitHub Pages (Settings > Pages) to publish a simple website from a repository.

Privacy: never upload personal data, passwords or confidential company data.

Presenting Your Portfolio

Finally, point people to your work:

  • Resume: add a Projects section with one line per project in the form action + tool + result: "Analyzed 5.6M bike-share rides with SQL and Power BI; identified a weekend segment with 41% of rides for a targeted membership offer."
  • LinkedIn: add each project to the Featured section with its dashboard image and link. Consider a short post about what you learned.
  • Interviews: prepare a two-minute walk-through of each project: problem, data, approach, finding, recommendation, what you would do next.

Watch

Practice

Create a GitHub repository for each project, upload the files and write the README. Build your profile README or GitHub Pages site linking to all three. Write a resume line for each project and update LinkedIn.

Check your understanding

Try each question first, then open it to see the answer.

What should appear near the top of a portfolio README?

The executive summary and a dashboard screenshot.

How do you create a GitHub profile page?

Create a public repository named exactly the same as your username and edit its README.

What formula works well for a resume project line?

Action + tool + result.

Assignment

Final submission: the link to your GitHub profile or portfolio page with three published projects, your resume Projects section and a two-minute recorded walk-through of one project.