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Welcome to Decode With Heena

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I'm Heena Shaikh , a Data Science graduate with a passion for turning raw data into meaningful insights. Through this blog, I share my real-world projects, virtual internship experiences, and tutorials in data analytics, machine learning, and business reporting. Whether you're a recruiter, a fellow learner, or someone just curious about data — I'm glad you're here! ๐Ÿ‘‰ Feel free to explore my About Me and Get my Resume , check out my Projects , check out my Blog Posts , or Contact Me anytime.

Designing a Health Tips Real-Time Dashboard Using Power BI

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  {Click on image for broad clear view} ๐Ÿง  Project Overview This Power BI dashboard was created to visually communicate various health tips and preventive measures . The goal was to present health-related information in a clean, interactive format — perfect for awareness campaigns or clinics. It’s a creative project that blends data visualization with public health education . ๐ŸŽฏ Purpose To build a dashboard that: Helps users quickly understand daily health practices Encourages a preventive lifestyle Presents data in a visually appealing way ๐Ÿ›  Tools Used Power BI Desktop Excel Sheets with health info as data source Custom visuals, icons, filters Data cards, pie charts, bar graphs ๐Ÿ“Š Dashboard Highlights ๐Ÿงด Hygiene Tips: Importance of hand washing, mask-wearing ๐Ÿฅฆ Nutrition Basics: Healthy food groups & balanced meals ๐Ÿง˜‍♀️ Mental Wellness: Stress reduction, sleep habits ๐Ÿงช Preventive Health: Regular checkups and fitness tips ...

How I Built a Sales Dashboard for "Savr" Finance App Using Power BI

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๐Ÿ” Project Background Savr is a fictional retail brand created for a mock business dashboard challenge. The goal was to visualize sales, customer trends, and performance metrics using Power BI — just like you'd do in a real business setting. ๐ŸŽฏ Business Objective To help the marketing and operations team at Savr: Track sales performance by region and product Identify best- and worst-performing categories Understand customer behavior and returns ๐Ÿ›  Tools Used Power BI – for building dynamic dashboards Excel – for handling raw data DAX – to create calculated metrics Power Query – for data transformation ๐Ÿ“ˆ Dashboard Features Here’s what the final dashboard includes: Sales Overview: Shows total sales, quantity sold, returns, and profit across all regions. Top Products & Categories: Highlights high-revenue items and low performers. Customer Segment Analysis: Breaks down metrics by customer types (e.g., Loyal, New). Dynamic Filter...

ForecastFlow: Time Series Forecasting App Using Flask and Prophet

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 ๐Ÿ” Project Overview ForecastFlow is a simple and interactive time series forecasting app that I built using Flask  and Facebook Prophet . It allows users to upload their own CSV files and generate future predictions with just a few clicks after uploading data  —no coding more analysis based ! This was a self-driven project to explore time series forecasting and learn how to deploy ML models with a user-friendly interface. ๐ŸŽฏ What Problem It Solves Forecasting sales, demand, stock levels, or customer trends is critical in business. But many non-technical users struggle with coding-heavy tools. ForecastFlow simplifies that process — anyone can generate insights from their own data. ๐Ÿ› ️ Tools and Technologies Used Python  Pandas & NumPy – Data preprocessing Facebook Prophet – Time series modeling Flask  – App deployment and UI Matplotlib & Plotly – Visualizing forecast results ⚙️ Features of ForecastFlow ๐Ÿ“ Upload CSV files...

How I Built ShopeE-Mate (An E-commerce Product Recommendation /Comparison Using Python and Machine Learning)

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๐Ÿ›️ Project Overview During my final year, I created a multi-platform e-commerce product recommendation system called ShopeE-Mate . This tool helps users find the best deals across Amazon, Flipkart, and JioMart — all in one place. ๐Ÿ’ก The Problem Users waste a lot of time switching between apps and websites just to find the best price for the same product. I wanted to solve that using automation and ML/AI. ๐Ÿ› ️ Tools and Technologies Used ๐Ÿ”Ž Web Scraping: RPA UiPath, Selenium ๐Ÿ“Š Data Processing: Pandas, NumPy , Google colab ๐Ÿ“ฆ Machine Learning: Scikit-learn, Tokenization(NLP) ๐Ÿง  Recommendation Models: Content-based, Collaborative, Hybrid  ๐ŸŒ Web Framework: Flask  ๐Ÿ›ข Database system : MySql XAMPP server ⚙️ How It Works Step 1: Product data is scraped in real-time using automation tools Step 2: Data is cleaned and structured using Pandas Step 3: ML models rank the products based on user preference, rating, and discount Step 4: Flask displays...

Sales Forecasting for Big Mart Using XGBoost Regression — A Machine Learning Approach

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  {Click on image for broad clear view} ๐Ÿ” Project Overview This project focuses on predicting sales for Big Mart stores across India using historical data. I built a machine learning model that analyzes factors like product price, store type, location, and promotions to forecast future sales with greater accuracy. ๐ŸŽฏ Business Problem Big Mart needed a reliable way to forecast sales to: Avoid overstocking and stockouts Optimize inventory and staffing Plan promotions more effectively Using machine learning helps make smarter, data-driven decisions. ๐Ÿ›  Tools & Techniques Used Python + Google Colab Libraries: Pandas, Seaborn, Matplotlib, XGBoost, Scikit-learn Model Used: XGBoost Regressor Data Source: Kaggle – Big Mart Sales Dataset ⚙️ Key Steps I Followed Data cleaning and handling missing values Feature encoding (Label Encoding for categories) Exploratory Data Analysis using Seaborn Model training with XGBoost Evaluation usi...