Today was not the most eventful day. When I arrived this morning, I found Kaitlin sitting at her desk. Then, I asked her what we were doing this morning. She wasn’t so sure either, so we went to find Erika. Erika explained to us that Kit, the IT guy at Bavarian Nordic, came back from his vacation today so we would finally be able to install the software we needed to view the Brachyury data. We had been trying to get this software since last week! However, she told us Kit was currently in a meeting so he wouldn’t get to us for another hour. In that time, Kaitlin and I looked through the study details, which were hard to understand. We did this for about two hours when we realized Kit hadn’t helped us yet. Unfortunately, someone else needed his help and that was more pressing. Therefore, we kept reading for a while longer.
When Kit was finally able to help, he was able to get the software up and running in about 10 minutes. By that time, we were ready for lunch. After Kaitlin and I ate our meals, we were finally able to view the Brachyury data and manipulate it using the SAS programming skills we learned last week. We were supposed to meet with Dorian to talk about pharmacovigilance, but there was a death in a study that required her immediate attention. Instead of meeting with Dorian, Kaitlin and I met with Erika to get started making graphs and tables. This time was extremely helpful because all the raw data was really overwhelming.
Once we were all set up, Kaitlin and I sat in the conference room working on making sense of some of the data. It was really hard to figure out what data to compare and find out whether the graphs we were creating would be helpful. Kaitlin and I worked until 4. At that time, Erika had said we deserved to go home. After those few hours, I finally have a better understanding of SAS programming in the real world. I also got a better look at Erika’s job and what it entails. Tomorrow, we will look at the visuals that Kaitlin and I made to see what we can glean from them!
