Elena Marsh standing outdoors in a pale linen shirt

I turn messy data into answers a team can act on.

I'm Elena, a junior data analyst in Manchester. I work in SQL, Python and Tableau, and spent last summer on a grocery chain's real stock data.

Based in

Manchester, or remote

Looking for

Junior analyst roles

Can start

November 2026

Selected work

All on public data, so every number can be checked.

Line chart: average daily Santander Cycles hires fall as rain increases, more steeply on weekends than on weekdays

A wet weekend costs London a third of its bike hires

Three years of daily Santander Cycles hires matched to rainfall. Wet weekends lost 32% of riders, wet weekdays only 23%: commuters ride anyway.

Data: TfL, Open-Meteo, 2023–25 · Python, pandas, matplotlib

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Line chart: UK food inflation peaked at 19.1% in March 2023, well above overall inflation

Food prices rose 19.1% in a year, nearly double overall inflation

My dissertation: seven years of monthly ONS price indices, and which foods drove the March 2023 peak.

Data: ONS CPI · Excel, Python, Tableau

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Line chart: UK youth unemployment rose from 10.6% in 2022 to 14.6% in 2025 while the EU average stayed near 16%

UK youth unemployment rose 4 points in three years while the EU held flat

Ages 15 to 24: the UK against the EU and its four largest economies since 2008.

Data: World Bank (ILO estimates) · SQL, Tableau

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Experience

Data Analyst Intern, Northfield Grocers

Jun – Aug 2025 · Leeds · 10-week summer internship

Rebuilt the weekly stock report in SQL and Power BI. It went from four hours of copying spreadsheets to ten minutes, and 38 store managers now read it every Monday.

SQL, Power BI, Excel

Student Ambassador, University of Leeds

Sep 2023 – May 2026 · Part-time, alongside my degree

Led campus tours for prospective students and built the sign-up tracker the team now uses to staff open days.

Education

BSc Economics and Statistics, First Class

2022 – 2026 · University of Leeds

Dissertation on the 2022–23 food price surge. Modules in econometrics, time series and survey methods.

Skills

Analysis

SQL, Python (pandas), Excel, regression, time series, A/B test basics

Visualisation

Tableau, Power BI, matplotlib

Tools

Git, Jupyter, Google Sheets, dbt (learning)

Working with people

Writing findings for non-analysts, presenting to store managers

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