Amazon Externship via Extern
I blend quantitative tools and narrative techniques to surface consumer and people insights that guide decisions.
Portfolio items include consumer review analysis for Beats by Dre, Flourish visualizations and Amazon people-analytics research. Each project pairs code, visualization and written narrative to inform
Beats By Dre · Mar 2026 · ✅ Verified by Extern
A data analytics externship with Beats By Dre focused on extracting qualitative and quantitative consumer insights from reviews and surveys.
Flourish · May 2026 · ✅ Verified by Extern
In this externship, you’ll build vibrant infographics and interactive presentations using real-world datasets and Flourish visualizations. You’ll tackle business challenges in marketing, sales, sustainability, and education—translating numbers into narratives that drive decisions. Every project strengthens your strategic communication skills and expands Canva’s data storytelling ecosystem. By the end, you’ll have portfolio-ready templates that prove you can make data speak—a skill top employers love.
I blend quantitative tools and narrative techniques to surface consumer and people insights that guide decisions.
I am Ariana Isla, a sophomore studying Business Administration and Digital Business. I work in data analytics and visualization, combining Python, R, SQL and tools like Power BI and Flourish to turn qualitative and quantitative data into clear stories. I have completed externships and project work with Beats by Dre, Flourish (with Canva), Amazon, McKinsey Forward Learning, National Geographic Society and The Nature Conservancy.
Externships
Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship
In progress
Experience
Selected Participant
McKinsey & Company, Forward Learning Program · April 2026 - June 2026
Researcher & Storyteller
National Geographic Society & The Nature Conservancy · February 2026 - April 2026
Data Visualization Extern
Flourish (via Extern), in partnership with Canva · April 2026
Data Analytics Extern
Beats by Dre (via Extern) · December 2025
Education
University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC)
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Digital Business · Class of 2028
Skills
✅ Verified by Extern
A data analytics externship with Beats By Dre focused on extracting qualitative and quantitative consumer insights from reviews and surveys.
During my externship with Beats By Dre, I explored how leading brands analyze consumer conversations to create resonant products. I gained practical skills in uncovering market trends, analyzing customer feedback, and performing sentiment analysis using Python and innovative AI tools. This experience deepened my understanding of consumer behavior and its impact on strategic business decisions.
I produced a set of consumer-insight artifacts: a Top 5 pain-point list with counts, a structured AIDA customer-journey spreadsheet, statistical summaries from a 5,022-response survey showing sound quality as the top feature, proposed sentiment-analysis experiments, and a data-driven slide deck with charts and revenue scenarios.
✅ Verified by Extern
In this externship, you’ll build vibrant infographics and interactive presentations using real-world datasets and Flourish visualizations. You’ll tackle business challenges in marketing, sales, sustainability, and education—translating numbers into narratives that drive decisions. Every project strengthens your strategic communication skills and expands Canva’s data storytelling ecosystem. By the end, you’ll have portfolio-ready templates that prove you can make data speak—a skill top employers love.
During my Flourish Data Visualization Externship, I developed vibrant infographics and interactive presentations using real-world datasets. I tackled business challenges across various sectors, transforming complex data into compelling narratives that drive decision-making. This experience honed my strategic communication skills, resulting in portfolio-ready templates that demonstrate my ability
I delivered three portfolio-ready artifacts: a commuter-focused retail slide, a choropleth map of county demographic change, and an AI-ready Canva presentation built from 200,000 campaign rows preprocessed for Flourish.
National Geographic & The Nature Conservancy · Apr 2026
✅ Verified by Extern · ⏱️ In progress
Imagine shaping how AMAZON — yes, THE Amazon — welcomes and keeps its workforce. Every year, Amazon loses billions because new hires leave before Day 90. You’re going to fix that. In this externship, you’ll web scrape real-world employee reviews from across the web, extract actionable insights, and design persona-driven strategies to help Learning Ambassadors connect smarter, faster, and more humanely. It’s part research, part strategy—and all about learning how people data drives big decisions.
In the Amazon Operational Strategy & People Analytics Externship, I focused on enhancing employee retention by analyzing workforce data and employee feedback. I utilized web scraping techniques to gather insights from online reviews and developed strategies aimed at improving the onboarding experience for new hires, ultimately aiding Amazon in reducing turnover.
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I produced an evidence-based briefing note that identified key frontline turnover drivers and recommended specific changes to takt times, HR support, and onboarding processes.
The project analyzed frontline turnover drivers from sentiment and industry data, identified unsustainable pacing, dehumanized HR systems, micromanagement, and process instability, and produced a briefing note with concrete recommendations to adjust takt times, strengthen HR support, and improve…
The project processed raw Glassdoor reviews, dropped low-value and duplicate columns, removed exact duplicate rows, and confirmed review_pros and review_cons were 100% populated. The cleaned CSV was exported for analysis.
