These past two weeks were very eventful for me! I had two interviews: one with Mr. Mike Bernico from Google and one with Mr. Peter Laube from State Farm. My interview with Mr. Bernico was so interesting, as we were both very interested in machine bias. He gave plenty of examples, such as how he built a machine to detect smokers in order to predict life insurance policies – this was back when he worked at State Farm. Now, he is a Machine Learning Cloud Consultant at Google, which was super cool, because we talked all about how data is pretty much in every aspect of Google. My interview with Peter Laube was extremely interesting as well, as we discussed in-depth about the skills needed as a data scientist and how he manages his team, as he is a Manager of Data Scientist at State Farm. Both of my interviews were so insightful and I plan to keep in touch with both professionals. I also worked on my original work later during Thanksgiving break. I downloaded Sketch onto my computer and started designing! It was super tricky at first because I didn’t really know how to use the features yet, but I got the hang of it eventually and designed the home page of my app. I also watched two (hour-long) Youtube videos while I designed to understand how I should go about designing and implementing my data into it. I also continued sketching out my ideas for the features and researched what else should go into the app. It was so cool to dive deeper into my interviews and original work, because I feel like I have learned so much just in the past few weeks.