Maxim Kobzev

Data Visualizer and Dashboard Creator

Creating dashboards in R Shiny, Tableau, Power BI, Looker Studio, Data Wrapper and Qlik Sense.

Featured Projects

A selection of R Shiny dashboards

Russian border crossings dashboard

Russian border crossings dashboard

A Shiny Dashboard app showing the border crossings with Russian Federation for the decade of 2010 through 2020.

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WDI dashboard

World Development Indicators dashboard

A comprehensive Shiny Dashboard app dedicated to the World Development Indicators, featuring the full World Bank database with maximum level of details.

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WDI dashboard

World Development Indicators on a full-screen map

A simple Shiny Dashboard app showing the World Development Indicatorson a full-screen Leaflet map.

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A selection of Qlik Sense dashboard features

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A selection of Tableau apps

Drawing continents by routes

Airports, routes and runways

A comprehensive overview of the airports, routes and runways of the World.

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Metro in Europe

Metro systems of the World

An overview of the World's metro/subway/rapid transit systems, 1890 - 2021.

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Russia outgoing dashboard

Border crossings with Russian Federation

A Tableau app showing the border crossings with Russian Federation for the decade of 2010 through 2020.

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Tableau Airports app

Air passenger traffic Russia 2018-2020

A simple Tableau app showing the 2020' effect of travel restrictions on six major Russian airports.

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Australian airline routes dashboard

Australian airline routes

A Tableau app on the Australian domestic airline routes, 1984 - 2020.

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Tableau IMDB app

Box Office Discoveries

A Tableau app analyzing the box offices for the full-length motion pictures/animations made between 1977 and 2020.

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A selection of Tableau dashboard features

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A selection of Power BI dashboard features

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A selection of Excel dashboard features

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Work Experience

Data Scientist / Data Wrangler / Data Visualizer (changing the career path)

Freelance

Dec 2019 - current

  • 7 published app in Tableau Public
  • 5 published apps in R Shiny Dashboard
  • 3 completed projects in Power BI
  • 2 published apps in Qlik Sense
  • 2 Shiny Contest participation: 2020 & 2021
  • 10+ ongoing projects of of the apps/dashboards in R/Tableau/Shiny/Power BI

Market Manager / Report Developer

Expedia Group

Feb 2015 - Nov 2019

  • 100+ reports & visualizations created in Excel, Tableau & PowerPoint
  • 300+ colleagues helped with increasing the productivity and achieving the KPIs
  • 50+ coaching sessions provided for colleagues in EMEA, APAC and Americas
  • 20+ Expedia market summits prepared and conducted in Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria
  • 20+ webinars for hotel partners provided in 7 countries across Eastern Europe
  • 10+ key note speeches held at the trade fairs and hotel forums in Germany, Russia and Ukraine

Market Manager Eastern Europe

Expedia Group

Jan 2008 - Jan 2015

  • 800+ properties acquired across 10 countries, bringing $10M incremental revenue
  • 500+ accounts managed across 8 countries, advising on partner revenue optimization

Sales and Marketing Strategy Consultant

Zumtobel Lighting GmbH

Jul 2006 - Sep 2006

  • Sales and marketing consultancy project

Head of Sales Division / Report Developer

Axima Ltd.

Jan 2001 - Sep 2005

  • Revenue and pricing management for a $100M turnover company
  • Report development

Accomplishments

  • Learned R & Shiny from scratch within 8 months (2019-2020)
  • Learned HTML/CSS from scratch within 6 months (2019-2020)
  • Top 5% Excel user (LinkedIn assessment, out of 9.9M participants)
  • Top 15% R user (LinkedIn assessment, out of 339k participants)
  • Top 15% HTML user (LinkedIn assessment, out of 940k participants)
  • Top 15% CSS user (LinkedIn assessment, out of 1.3M participants)

Certificates


Education

LinkedIn, edX, DataCamp, W3Schools, TechGig

20+ courses on R, Tableau, Shiny, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, D3.js, SQL, Qlik etc.

2019 - current

University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

MBA, General Management

2006

Moscow State University, Russia

Master of Sciences, Physics

1987 - 1993