Sadly, yesterday marked the end of my time at the sales department at SAS. Good thing I got to see everyone else from CA today at SAS. Everyone gathered around at building R which is one of the R and D buildings at SAS. We started off the day with a presentation on the app GatherIQ. Honestly, it wasn’t that interesting. The run down is it uses SAS visual analytics to create pretty graphs on pressing issues such as migrants, environment, and water issues. When then went down to test the app because we are unbiased opinions. I teamed up with Isaac as we tested the application. So I have some problems with the app. First they want this product to be for anyone to pick up and use, especially younger people. The problem with that is just people don’t care. I am an environmentalist and sure I would look at some of the stuff they have in my free time maybe. However, I wouldn’t be on there looking at everything they have all the time. I feel like the general populace just doesn’t care enough for this type of app. So this also brings in marketing. SAS isn’t really marketing GatherIQ at all and on top of that the majority of people aren’t interested it makes for an unsuccessful app. After testing it I had lunch with the CA kids. Then we went back and the people behind GatherIQ had a challenge for us. So we had two teams. One was Matthew S, Matthew C, Will P, and Jessica J. The other team was Isaac, Nancy (a girl joining us for the activity) and I. My group’s task was to see if this could be viable in terms of other people sharing it on social media. Then creating a webpage or model for a potential GatherIQ revamp. Then create a way to include games in the app. Overall, had a blast hanging out with my friends and meeting new people. 
look at the gather IQ webpage