README.md

🏡 U.S. Household Income Analysis

Uncovering financial trends across the United States through multi-format data exploration, SQL queries, and statistical insights.

📁 Project Overview

This project analyzes U.S. household income data using multiple file formats—Excel, SQL, JSON, and CSV—to extract meaningful insights into regional income distribution and demographic patterns.

🔍 Objectives

• Ingest and clean raw income data across diverse formats
• Use SQL to perform data exploration, filtering, and aggregation
• Generate insights on income trends by region and demographics
• Document a transparent, repeatable analytical workflow

📂 Repository Structure

📦 US-Household-Income-Analysis/ ├── 📁 raw_data_part_1/ │ ├── USHouseholdIncome.xls │ ├── USHouseholdIncome.sql │ ├── USHouseholdIncome.json │ └── USHouseholdIncome.csv ├── 📁 raw_data_part_2/ │ ├── USHouseholdIncome_Statistics.sql │ ├── USHouseholdIncome_Statistics.json │ └── USHouseholdIncome_Statistics.csv ├── 📁 analysis_queries/ │ └── US_household-income_script.sql ├── 📁 output/ │ └── US_household_income_output.csv

🧠 Insights Uncovered

• Regional disparities in median household income
• Correlation between income levels, state, and county attributes
• Identification of top-performing and underserved regions

🛠 Tools & Skills Used

• SQL (JOINs, aggregations, filtering, transformations)
• Data wrangling & validation
• Multi-format parsing (Excel, JSON, CSV)
• Git & GitHub for project versioning

📌 Key Learnings

• Built experience in working with diverse datasets
• Designed and executed complex SQL queries
• Learned to translate raw data into actionable conclusions
• Strengthened documentation and version control habits

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