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5/31

Today, after we worked on our presentation to the school and Mark, the CIO of Gilead Sciences, we did a dry run presentation to Mike, one of our mentors. He gave both me and Matthew a lot of helpful tips for our presentation. Not just things about the slideshow, but also about how we, as people, present. He pointed out some of the unconscious fidgets I do while presenting and how I can fix them, and gave Matthew some pointers on how he could improve his speaking. I think this was really helpful, not just for the presentation but also for going anywhere in the future. Here’s a photo of our whiteboarding process for creating the slideshow.

5/30

We had the day off today, since it’s memorial day, so I don’t have anything to share. I used the day off to play with my family’s new puppy, so I decided to include a picture of her as my required media for this post. Her name is Mayday, and she’s a Belgian Malinois and Whippet Mix. The only time I could get a good photo of her was when she was asleep, because she doesn’t stay still long enough for a photo when shes awake.

5/27

We worked from home today since most people do not come into the office on Friday, including our mentors for this program. We started with a zoom call with Deepti about what we would be working on from home, but after that it was free reign to complete yesterdays work. I asked some questions while I was on the zoom call, but I had more during my work, so I did some research and went to geeks for geeks and managed to solve my bug. Here is my final product of that day’s assigned work! I’m pretty proud of this one, it took a lot of work and I think it looks nice.

5/26

Today we learned how to use R (a programming language for statistical analysis) to analyze and graph covid data, and I really like this language. It’s intuitive, the commands make sense, and the stuff you can do with it is really impressive! Here is some of the example work created with the data, this specific data set is about heart disease correlation with cholesterol levels, but our work today was focused on trying to graph covid data from the WHO. I can share some of my progress tomorrow.

5/25

Today, after getting feedback on our graphics from yesterday, we learned how to use PowerBI to create a dashboard with statistics. PowerBI is a very efficient tool to create graphs, as it automatically creates charts when you combine two columns from excel, using whatever type of graph it thinks fits best or you manually select. I really like using PowerBI to display information, it is an excellent tool and I think it will help me in my career to be proficient in PowerBI. Here is the first dashboard I created, with the same WHO covid statistics.

5/24

Today was our first day in the office, and what a great way to start! We began by meeting the other two people who would be most involved in our internship, Mike and Depti, and learning more about their jobs and what the company does as a whole. The fun part was after lunch, when we were given COVID data from the WHO and had to answer questions about statistics from the countries and regions using excel to create pivot tables and pivot charts. We created graphics to show answers to these questions and will present them tomorrow morning for feedback. Here’s a graphic I created to show the vaccination statistics by region.

5/23

Matthew and I had a zoom call with Mr. David Ungaro, our mentor for this internship, to discuss the expectations of our internship and what we would be doing over the next two weeks. I had the opportunity to discuss where my interest in computer science started with him, and explain why I wanted to intern at Gilead sciences. We talked about what the focus of our work would be, and that we had a lot of freedom in terms of what we wanted to work on.

I also researched the location, and apparently their building in NC is relatively new, built within the last year.