The Real Value of Data Analysts in the AI Era
From framing business questions and querying complex data to delivering business impact: where analysts add...
I'm Yifu Yuan, a data science and AI enthusiast and practitioner with a combined background in information systems and business analytics. I bring data analysis skills for complex business scenarios along with hands-on engineering experience, and I focus on how data insights can support business decisions.
In my spare time, I enjoy building personal apps and automation tools, and I keep exploring how AI can be applied to data analysis and real-world business scenarios.
Aug 2025 - Nov 2026
Master in Enterprise Business Analytics
Studying data science, machine learning, and business analytics with a focus on enterprise applications. Earned an A+ on my Capstone Project in Data Analytics. To help a company grow the penetration of its in-app e-commerce business, I replaced its rule-based targeting for first-order coupons with uplift modeling to identify truly incremental users, then validated the approach with an A/B test, improving both conversion rate and net value per user.
Mar 2026 - Jun 2026
Data Analyst Intern
Supported data analysis for Fanqie Novel's multi-genre content. Built the analytics foundation by designing metric frameworks and dashboards, ran daily analysis including metric anomaly diagnosis and A/B test analysis, and delivered deep-dive studies that informed content distribution strategy and user experience optimization.
Apr 2025 - Jul 2025
AI Engineer Intern
Contributed to the end-to-end MVP of "Where Has the Time Gone," an AI-powered family memory product. Built Dify workflows and optimized prompts for speech recognition, image understanding, and personalized story generation, supported PRD and prototype design based on early user research, launched the product website with Next.js, and analyzed content performance across the website, Xiaohongshu, and WeChat.
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
Data Science Intern
Built an AI-driven, automated SKU review analysis pipeline for the Quality Assurance team. Used a Bayesian CUSUM algorithm to monitor SKUs for sustained rating deterioration, and analyzed review text with Auto Buzz, a text analysis tool built on Google Vertex AI, LangChain, and FastAPI, to pinpoint the root causes of quality issues.
Jul 2024 - Sep 2024
Data Engineer Intern
Worked on an Eco-Tourism AI Mini Program, building the backend database, automating attraction data collection across multiple cities, and using LLM APIs to clean and enrich the data.
Sep 2021 - Jun 2025
B.S. in Information Management and Information Systems
Ranked 1st in my major with a GPA of 4.44, and scored TOEFL 110 and GRE 334. Paper publication: DistilBERT Hotel Rating Prediction Model Based on an Ensemble Learning Framework.
Some of my recent work
Latest thoughts and insights
From framing business questions and querying complex data to delivering business impact: where analysts add...
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