Michael Ly

Number Enthusiast, CSV Connoisseur, Data Accessibility AdvocateLinks to my online portfolios!


About Me

Hello Everyone, my name is Michael Ly, I am extremely happy and thankful for you checking out my page! I am a Graduate Student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a focus in Epidemiology and Data Analytics.I have been fortunate to work as a Data Analyst Intern covering Data revolving around COVID-19 utilizing Python and Tableau.Please have a browse through some of my work alongside my current role as a Data Analyst Intern at the Brotman Baty Institute of Precision Medicine.My Projects are topics that are interesting to me alongside a good representation of who I am as a Data Practitioner.My toolkit for Analysis utilizes Python, SAS, Excel, SQL, and Tableau.

Portfolio Work

Below are a list of some of my projects I have created and done using a variety of Analytic programs and tools from Python, Excel, SQL and Tableau. Below are links to my Medium Articles, Github Repositories and Tableau Public. Please see that in each project these buttons directly correlate to the project of interest.


Every year around the middle of November to the end of March roughly 56 million skiing or snowboarding visits are recorded nationwide as excited people are ready to have their taste of the fresh snow on the mountains. With millions of visits recorded annually, I thought it would be interesting to see what types of injuries come from these types of activities.


League of Legends is a game that has captivated the world since its debut in 2009. From all walks of life, players are passionate and ready to tell Riot at their mercy when they believe a champion needs to be buffed or nerfed. In this analysis, I will be attempting to be a league of legends Balance Team Analyst to bring a list of champions that may be nerfed for the upcoming patch release.


For my first Data Science Portfolio Project, I would like to pay tribute to the main reason I decided to go into this field and process and analyze COVID-19 Data from the very beginning and possibly identify some interesting points made within my path to creating a dashboard.

Professional Work Summary

Currently I am working with the Brotman Baty Institute in a small team to create a prospective and dynamic dashboard for the data that has been collected through the study. In this project I have been utilizing Python to collect and transform the data while working with the development team in order to house where the data will be stored using AWS servers. Visualizations built from this project have primarily been on Tableau.

I have had the fortunate pleasure of working with the University of Washington since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic assisting in multiple large scale data collecting iniatives through the Brotman Baty Institute. With my biggest projects coming from the Husky Coronavirus Testing Study. In this role I have served as a study assistant for this study alongside other studies powered through the Brotman Baty Institute.