Kifah Owda

Work

Seven projects across product, data, and engineering — each one a story, not a repo.

Looking up at a circle of women joining hands overhead
Data & Analytics

When Women Rise: At What Age Do Women Reach Leadership?

A SQL study of 24,000 leadership records from Wikidata: at what age women reach the top, and how that compares with men.

SQL Data Modeling Python Statistics
Children playing on a lakeside playground in Ontario
Product Demo Beta testing

Ontario Playground Finder

A community-built map of Ontario playgrounds — filter by age group, equipment, surface and amenities before you leave the house.

Python SQLite User Research Data Visualization +2
Playground with a green rubber-surfaced climbing hill, a red tube slide and orange climbing arches under a clear blue sky
Data & Analytics Live

Ontario Playground Map on ArcGIS

Survey123, ArcGIS Dashboards and StoryMaps chained into one pipeline — community-collected playground data, live on a public map, built without a line of backend code.

ArcGIS Survey123 ArcGIS Dashboards StoryMaps +2
Figma prototype of a health tracking dashboard showing calories, BMI, daily steps, water intake, sleep and a weight-loss line from start to goal
Product Live

Health Tracking Dashboard: Designing Around One Person's Morning

A user-centred design project — one interview, two sketches, a Figma prototype and a Tableau dashboard built for how a real person actually checks her health each morning.

User Research UX Design Figma Tableau +1
Map of Toronto with every reviewed Airbnb listing plotted as a dot coloured by review sentiment — overwhelmingly green, with yellow and red dots concentrated downtown
Data & Analytics Live

Airbnb in Canada: What Guest Reviews Say About Where People Stay

A three-part Tableau story on Canadian Airbnb listings and reviews — I led the team, sourced and joined the data, and built the review-sentiment analysis in Python.

Tableau Python NLP Sentiment Analysis +2
Heatmap of expected event attendance across the Greater Toronto Area, with the hottest zone over downtown Toronto
Data & Analytics

PopIn: Building an Event Data Pipeline for the GTA From Scratch

Capstone with a Toronto event-tech startup: daily public event data collection, 52 categories unified into 13, and a heatmap dashboard with attendance forecasting.

Data Collection Python Data Pipeline Plotly Dash +2
Odds ratio chart showing later funding rounds associated with higher acquisition rates
Data & Analytics

Startup Success Prediction: What Actually Drives an Acquisition

A statistical study of 916 US startups testing common founder assumptions against real outcomes — what actually predicts getting acquired instead of shutting down.

Statistics Hypothesis Testing Regression Excel
Desk with a laptop and monitor showing stock price charts, and a phone calculator resting on printed financial reports
Data & Analytics

InvestInsight: A Python Tool for Watching Tech Stocks Against the Market

A desktop stock-analysis tool built on the Alpha Vantage API — moving averages, returns, beta, rolling volatility and price-timing patterns for AAPL, MSFT and SPY.

Python pandas NumPy Matplotlib +2