Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Projects
Accomplishments
Work Availability
Quote
Timeline
Hi, I’m

Olwethu Magadla

Data Enthusiast
Olwethu Magadla

Summary

Driven Data Science Intern ready to thrive in demanding digital intelligence processing environments. Lifelong learner of the latest machine learning advancements. Ready to combine tireless hunger for new skills with desire to exploit cutting-edge data science technology in the business world.

Overview

6
years of professional experience
3
years of post-secondary education
3
Certifications

Work History

BCX

Data Science Intern
08.2023 - Current

Job overview

Created data visualization graphics and dashboard, translating complex data sets into comprehensive visual representations. Pinpointed meaningful insights from large data and metadata sources.

  • We created a dashboard showcasing the sales Opportunity Wins vs. Losses from BCX's Salesforce data for the Marketing department. The insight helped BCX increase opportunity wins by 5%.

Wits RHI
Welkom

Clerical Assistant
08.2022 - 11.2022

Job overview

As a Clerical Assistant, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of our healthcare facility by performing a variety of administrative and clerical tasks. Your primary responsibilities will include:

  • Patient Information Management
  • Data entry and Record keeping
  • Patient engagement and communication
  • Established document management and increased efficiency

TuksFM
Pretoria

Marketing Team Member
02.2019 - 11.2019

Job overview

  • In this role, played vital part in promoting the station, driving ticket sales for events, and enhancing station presence in the community. Responsibilities included marketing activations, social media marketing, event coordination, building university community relationships, and developing advertising and marketing collateral. Creative and innovative marketing strategies helped us attract new clients and listeners while maximizing station outreach and advertising effort.

Health Systems Trust
Welkom

Data Capturer
09.2017 - 02.2018

Job overview

  • Responsible for collecting patient information, entering it into Tier.net database, summarizing data for statistical analysis and insights, and ensuring accuracy and integrity of information. Worked with Microsoft Office tools, particularly Excel and PowerPoint, to support data-related tasks, reporting and presentations.

Education

Explore AI Academy
Cape Town, South Africa

Higher Certificate in Information Technology from Data Science
01.2023 - 2023.12

University Overview

  • Appointed team lead and supervised team of 6 group members in group project facilitated by Explore AI.
  • Achieved "The teamplayer extraordinaire" award by being voted the explorer who is ultimate team player, making collaboration look like a delightful dance and elevating their team to new heights.

University of Cape Town
Cape Town

Short Course from Data Analysis
08.2022 - 2022.11

University Overview

Passed with distinction

University of South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa

Bachelor Of Commerce from Marketing Management
05.2021 - Current

University Overview

Skills

    Presentation

undefined

Certification

Matric Certificate , Department of Education - [2014]

Projects

Projects

-BCX Opportunity Wins vs. Losses Dashboard

We created a dashboard showcasing the sales Opportunity Wins vs. Losses from BCX's Salesforce data for the Marketing department. (Power BI, Excel, Salesforce)


-Spain Electricity Shortfall (Explore AI)

The project aims to model the daily energy shortfall in Spain, which represents the gap between energy generated from fossil fuels and various renewable sources. The model will consider weather features like wind speed, humidity, and more to understand and predict the factors that influence the gap. (Regression, Machine Learning, Python)


-Twitter Sentiment Analysis (Explore AI)

A Machine Learning model that is able to classify whether or not a person believes in climate change, based on their novel tweet data. (Classification, Machine Learning, Python)


-South African Language Identification Hackathon 2023 (Explore AI)

In this challenge, you will take text which is in any of South Africa's 11 Official languages and identify which language the text is in. This is an example of NLP's Language Identification, the task of determining the natural language that a piece of text is written in. (Classification, NLP, Python)


-Movie Recommendation System (Explore AI)

A recommendation algorithm based on content or collaborative filtering, capable of accurately predicting how a user will rate a movie they have not yet viewed based on their historical preferences. (Unsupervised learning)


Find all Data Science projects with more detail on my Data Science portfolio website : https://www.datascienceportfol.io/olwethumagadla

Accomplishments

Accomplishments
  • We created a dashboard showcasing the sales Opportunity Wins vs. Losses from BCX's Salesforce data for the Marketing department. The insight helped BCX increase opportunity wins by 5%.
Availability
See my work availability
Not Available
Available
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
swipe to browse

Quote

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell

Timeline

Data Science Intern
BCX
08.2023 - Current

Introduction to SQL and databases, Dataquest.io

04-2023

Introduction to Python Programming course, Dataquest.io

02-2023
Explore AI Academy
Higher Certificate in Information Technology from Data Science
01.2023 - 2023.12
University of Cape Town
Short Course from Data Analysis
08.2022 - 2022.11
Clerical Assistant
Wits RHI
08.2022 - 11.2022
University of South Africa
Bachelor Of Commerce from Marketing Management
05.2021 - Current
Marketing Team Member
TuksFM
02.2019 - 11.2019
Data Capturer
Health Systems Trust
09.2017 - 02.2018
Matric Certificate , Department of Education - [2014]
12-2014
Olwethu MagadlaData Enthusiast