Data Analyst · Research Publisher · Abuja, Nigeria

Anthony
Ogwu

I don't just produce dashboards. I produce arguments — backed by original data, structured as research, and written to reach the people who need to act on them.

Most analysts can visualise data. I can collect it, interrogate it, and tell you what it means — in a way that non-technical audiences understand and respond to.

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$4.17B in startup funding mapped & cross-validated
10,030 rental listings scraped & analysed
3 independent published research studies
1 live product MVP built on original research data
6 cities · 8 sectors · 72 subsectors covered
What Sets Me Apart

Three things most analysts don't combine

01

I challenge the consensus

My startup research exposed that CleanTech and HealthTech achieve 90% and 81.5% survival rates on a fraction of Fintech's capital — directly contradicting the dominant market narrative. I don't confirm what people already believe. I find what the data actually says.

02

I own the full workflow

From scraping raw data in Python, thorough cleaning and modelling in SQL and Excel, to building interactive Power BI and Tableau dashboards — I execute the complete data analyst workflow end to end. No handoffs. No gaps.

03

I translate data into decisions

My findings aren't buried in appendices. They are written to reach founders, investors, and policy makers. I turn statistical patterns into clear business arguments. That is a skill most technical analysts don't have — and most writers can't replicate.

Published Research

Three published studies.
One live product.

Startup Intelligence 2025 · Published on LinkedIn & Tableau Public 01

Nigerian Startup Ecosystem Analysis (2018–2025)

"The business model beats the sector — every time."

Collected and cross-validated $4.17B in startup funding data across 293 companies, 528 deals, 8 sectors and 72 subsectors — resolving naming inconsistencies, currency discrepancies and unverified claims from TechCabal, Techpoint Africa, Crunchbase and LinkedIn. Built entirely on self-collected, independently verified data.

Central Finding

"CleanTech and HealthTech delivered 90% and 81.5% survival rates on a fraction of Fintech's capital — directly challenging the dominant market narrative that Fintech is Nigeria's safest investment sector."

Power BI Tableau Python SQL Excel Multi-source cross-validation
$4.17B
Total funding tracked
293
Companies analysed
528
Deals mapped
72
Subsectors covered
3
Interactive Tableau dashboards
Full Report & Dashboard ⬇ Download PDF
Housing Intelligence 2026 · Power BI Dashboard + Published Article 02

Nigeria Housing Market — Rental Affordability Analysis

"The crisis is not Nigerian. It is Lagos and Abuja."

Scraped 10,030 live rental listings from Nigeria Property Centre and Jiji.ng across six cities using Python. Applied the globally recognised 30% housing cost standard against NBS NLSS income quintile data to map housing supply against actual household earning power. Developed an original four-tier city classification framework from the data.

Central Finding

"In Lagos and Abuja, 89% of listings are Luxury or Ultra-Luxury. In Benin City, 91% are Affordable or Mid-Range. Same country. Same year. Same platform. Remove Lagos and Abuja and Nigeria's housing market looks fundamentally different — Ultra-Luxury collapses from 42% to 7.7%."

Python (BeautifulSoup) Power BI DAX Excel NBS NLSS data Web scraping
10,030
Listings scraped
6
Cities covered
4
City tiers developed
2.4%
Affordable listings in Lagos & Abuja
97.6%
Market inaccessible to bottom 80%
Power BI Dashboard & Full Report ⬇ Download PDF
Data Product 2026 · Live Web App 03

Nigeria Rent Affordability Advisor — Live MVP

"From research to a tool anyone can actually use."

Built directly on top of the housing research dataset — an interactive web app where users enter their income and city to receive neighbourhood-level rent affordability recommendations. Powered by 10,030 real scraped listings and the same 30% housing cost standard used in the original study. Built and deployed using Bolt.new.

Why it matters

"Most analysts stop at the insight. This goes one step further — turning the data into a decision-making tool that real renters across six Nigerian cities can use right now."

Bolt.new JavaScript 10,030 listing dataset 30% income rule
10,030
Real listings powering the app
6
Cities covered
Live
Publicly accessible now
Consumer Insights 2026 · Social Listening Study · Published on LinkedIn 04

Temu vs Jumia — Nigerian E-Commerce Sentiment Study

"From legitimacy debate to preference debate."

Collected and manually coded 493 data points from 500+ tweets across 14 organic X (Twitter) threads between December 2025 and June 2026 — including a viral 311K-view "what I ordered vs what I got" thread. Coded each data point for sentiment, consumer archetype, platform preference and proximity perception across 457 unique users, then tested eight common beliefs about Temu against the data.

Central Finding

"Temu has not replaced Jumia — but it has fundamentally changed the conversation. The dominant question went from 'Is Temu even real?' to 'Which platform wins?' Nigerian consumers are rationally segmenting their spend: Temu owns low-risk, high-variety discretionary purchases, while Jumia holds high-risk capital items like phones and laptops through Pay-on-Delivery trust."

Social Listening Manual Coding Sentiment Analysis Archetype Segmentation X (Twitter) Data Qualitative Research
493
Coded data points
457
Unique users analysed
14
Organic source threads
69.8%
Positive sentiment toward Temu
65.3%
Stated platform preference for Temu
6
Consumer archetypes identified
Full Report & Slide Deck ⬇ Download PDF
Technical Skills

Tools I work with every day

Visualisation
  • Power BI — DAX, Power Query, interactive dashboards
  • Tableau — published public dashboards
  • Looker Studio
  • Excel charts & pivot analysis
Data & Analysis
  • Data cleaning & validation
  • Segmentation & affordability analysis
  • Market intelligence & trend identification
  • Multi-source cross-validation
Code & Collection
  • Python — Pandas, BeautifulSoup, web scraping
  • SQL — PostgreSQL, MySQL, JOINs, window functions
  • AI-assisted research workflows
Communication
  • Published analytical writing
  • Business intelligence reporting
  • Data storytelling for non-technical audiences
  • IELTS Band 7.5 — C1 English
Background

Research discipline.
Writer's instinct.

I came to data analytics from five years of professional writing and market research. That path is unusual — and it is the source of whatever makes my work distinctive.

Writers and analysts share one discipline: they both have to decide what the most important thing is, and say it clearly. The difference is that analysts can prove it. I learned to do both.

My three published studies and the live product built on top of them were all self-initiated — no client brief, no provided dataset, no guided tutorial. I identified the questions, collected the data, built the methodology, published the findings, and then turned them into a working app. That is the kind of analyst I am: self-directed, rigorous, and focused on insight that reaches people who can act on it.

Available remotely. Open to data analyst, market intelligence, research analyst, and business intelligence roles.

  • MSc — Logistics & Supply Chain Management
    University of Salford, Manchester, UK
    Graduated 2017
  • BSc — Chemistry
    University of Abuja, Nigeria
    Graduated 2014
  • Data Analytics Bootcamp
    Seed Builders, Nigeria — Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Python
    2026
  • Freelance Content Writer & Market Researcher
    Legiit.com — Nigerian fintech, startup & real estate sectors
    2023 – Present

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