EKC Data Analytics
Built and maintained a data analytics portal tracking Kansas City growth trends across more than five hundred thousand businesses and regional metrics.
Context
Economic Development Corporation teams needed a single source of truth for regional indicators, business activity, and investment trend analysis. Existing reporting was fragmented across spreadsheets and disconnected dashboards.
Contribution
I contributed to the front end implementation and data integration layer that powered the analytics experience.
- Implemented dashboard modules for sector, geography, and trend comparisons.
- Built reusable visualization wrappers around charting primitives.
- Added API normalization utilities to keep inconsistent data sources predictable.
- Improved table and filter performance for large result sets.
Technical Challenges
Large datasets and uneven source quality introduced reliability risks. We introduced clear loading and empty state behavior, plus client side normalization that kept the UI robust even when upstream fields were incomplete.
Outcome
The platform gave stakeholders a faster path from raw data to decisions. Teams were able to track growth indicators across the region in one place and reduce manual report preparation effort.
Reflection
Data products live or die on trust. The work that mattered most was not flashy visualization, it was consistent definitions, clear context, and predictable filtering behavior.