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5 portfolio projects that get UK data analyst interviews

Generic Kaggle projects don't move the needle anymore. Here's what UK hiring managers want to see — with five buildable briefs.

1 October 202612 min read
Draft. This article was carried over from the old hard-coded Insights page, which never had article bodies — every card linked to a page that did not exist. The outline below is a starting point.

Why the usual portfolio fails

What hiring managers see a hundred times a week, and why it stops reading as evidence.

The five briefs

One section each: the question, the dataset, and what good looks like.

How to present them

README, a short write-up, and the one chart that carries the finding.

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