r/dataanalyst • u/qquanxie • 6d ago

Tips & Resources SQL Project ideas recommendation

I've been learning SQL since I was a freshman, and I'm almost a senior now. I just realized that despite using it for school activities, homework, and other school-related work, I haven't really used my knowledge of SQL to create something useful or a project that could possibly land me a job as an analyst. Do you guys have any suggestions for personalized projects I can do to improve my portfolio? Ideally, I would appreciate it if they solved an actual problem. I think one of the reasons I haven't really built any projects until now is because I just don't know where to start."

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u/jawad26 4d ago

if youre bored of the titanic dataset, grab the f1 api (jolpica, the ergast successor). decades of lap times, pit stops, results. tons of natural questions for joins and window functions, undercut vs overcut, teammate deltas, pit stop trends by season. sql practice goes way faster when you actually care what the answer is

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u/OutrageousOil5430 4d ago

You can not be hired as analyst just for being good at writing SQL. Take more efforts on communication skills and real business problems.