SQL and Data Engineering Foundations

This section highlights projects that connect database thinking with practical analytics: requesting data, validating loads, preparing analysis-ready tables, writing SQL queries, and communicating results through clear visual summaries.

My focus is on building reproducible workflows that can be reviewed, rerun, and extended: from raw data access to SQLite storage, SQL-based metrics, exported outputs, and documented findings.

Commercial restaurant kitchen used as project image for inspection risk analytics

Restaurant Inspection Risk & Compliance Analytics

Built an API-to-SQLite analysis pipeline for 311k+ Chicago food inspection records, using SQL and Python visualizations to identify inspection failure patterns by outcome, facility type, time, and ZIP code.

Tools: Python, pandas, SQLite, SQL aggregation, Socrata API, data validation, CSV exports, and README-ready visual communication.

Project Signals

  • Public API access and pagination planning
  • SQLite table creation and CSV-to-database loading
  • SQL aggregation, conditional counts, percentages, and time-based summaries
  • Data validation checks and reproducible analysis exports
  • Visual summaries and documented interpretation limits