I find the story in data, then build the systems that act on it.

I'm Joshua Akintayo, a data analyst and data engineer based in Abuja. I've told data stories in an investigative newsroom, built pipelines and AI tools, and I teach. Whatever you need from data, there's a door for it below.

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ICIR: Former data analyst in an investigative newsroom
Millions: reached by my infographics
2: student papers I analysed, now published
Stage 2: iDICE Startup Bridge Founders Lab, with VendorIQ

Work with me

One person, three ways to help.

BrightPark Power BI dashboard built in Joshua's class

AnalystFemi

Learn data analysis

The 12-week Zero to Data Analyst mentorship. Excel, PostgreSQL and Power BI, live on Google Meet.

₦50,000 / month

Automation

Automate my work

AI tools and automations that take repetitive work off your plate, from WhatsApp bots to video pipelines.

5 tools built

Table 4.3 · Education × Knowledge level (sample data)

"Education was not linked to knowledge in this sample."

InsightsHub

Help with my research

Chapter 4 analysis for BSc, HND and Masters students, explained so you can defend every number.

From ₦30,000

The story

From the lab bench to the newsroom.

Different hats, one habit: take messy information, find what's true in it, and make it useful to someone.

2023
Microbiology graduate
B.Sc. Microbiology (Second Class Upper), University of Ibadan. Lab work taught me to respect evidence. Data became the way I handle it.
2023
First data role
Data analyst at JGB Stores: business intelligence and automated reporting for an e-commerce business. Certified Associate Data Analyst, DataCamp.
2024
Founded InsightsHub
Started InsightsHub to help students with research data analysis: statistics and structured reports for academic work. Data Analytics at Turing College. Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer.
2024
Into the newsroom
Data analyst at The ICIR, where I built trackers, dashboards and infographics that turn public data into accountability journalism.
2025
Data engineering
Data engineer at DEC: cloud pipelines with Python, Airflow, dbt and AWS.
2026
Builder and teacher
Building AI tools like VendorIQ and Snippy, and teaching the 12-week Zero to Data Analyst mentorship live on Google Meet.