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Aspiring data analyst focused on youth justice

Learning data analytics through a Center for Improving Youth Justice externship, applying analysis to youth justice questions as I build practical skills.

Work samples

Portfolio pieces show work completed during my Center for Improving Youth Justice externship: data cleaning, analysis, and visualizations focused on youth justice topics.

  • Data Analytics Externship with Center for Improving Youth Justice
    Data Analytics Externship with Center for Improving Youth Justice
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    Data Analytics Externship with Center for Improving Youth Justice

    A data analytics externship with the Center for Improving Youth Justice, focused on analyzing juvenile-facility records and surveys to identify patterns in incidents, demographics, and outcomes.

    Data AnalysisPythonData VisualizationStatistical Research

About me

Learning data analytics through a Center for Improving Youth Justice externship, applying analysis to youth justice questions as I build practical skills.

I am Racheal Akinkugbe. I am starting my career and exploring data analytics through an externship with the Center for Improving Youth Justice. I focus on learning data analysis methods and applying them to youth justice topics as I build practical experience.

Externships

Data Analytics Externship with Center for Improving Youth Justice

Center for Improving Youth Justice

Experience

EY Technology Risk Virtual Job Simulation on Forage

Forage · July 2026

Group Project Manager

University of Essex · October 2024 – May 2025

Resident Assistant

University of Essex · September 2022 - June 2024

Contact Tracer

CPL · November 2020 – June 2021

Operations Analyst

Optimum Dynamic Care · July 2025 — Till Present

Education

University of Essex

BA (Hons) Sociology and Politics with Applied Quantitative Methods · Class of 2025

Skills

Data cleaningData analysisData visualizationWorking with youth justice dataLearning analytics tools

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Data Analytics Externship with Center for Improving Youth Justice

A data analytics externship with the Center for Improving Youth Justice, focused on analyzing juvenile-facility records and surveys to identify patterns in incidents, demographics, and outcomes.

Data AnalysisPythonData VisualizationStatistical Research

Overview

The externship worked with CIYJ's multi-decade dataset containing incident reports, surveys, demographic records, and outcome measures. The project framed what correlational analysis can reveal, mapped common data limitations, and established analytical boundaries for revisiting assumptions in juvenile justice data. The work summarized practical approaches for extracting reliable signals from

Data Analytics Externship with Center for Improving Youth Justice

What I've accomplished

I established the analytic framing and clarified what correlational methods could and could not show, documenting common data gaps and the responsibilities of an analyst working with CIYJ's records.

Project breakdown

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