Today was really busy, as we learned first about the basics of data science and then completed a small project. It was our first time in the office, so it was really cool to work in the modern buildings at Northills, especially with the wide windowed conference rooms. We were taught in the morning about the process of data analytics and met Gilead Sciences’s CIO (Chief information officer). Since both of us had no prior experience to data analytics, it was an eye-opening experience to see how companies have entire departments dedicated to the collection and analysis of data. After getting lunch at a restaurant elsewhere in Northills, we were given our first project of analyzing vaccination data across the world. We organized WHO website data using excel functions for the rest of the afternoon and will present our results tomorrow. We heard that tomorrow we’ll be doing more programming and advanced data analytics tomorrow, so we’re pretty excited about it.
Sounds like an exciting start to WEP with the opportunities dive into real world data analysis! Interested in seeing how the presentation goes and what unique things you pick up about the global vaccination process.