More Interviews! - #13

December 8, 2019

This week was another busy one, as I had two more interviews – one with Mr. Dan Holman and one with Mr. Brett Beattie. Mr. Holman was so interesting to interview, as he was another Manager of Data Science at State Farm. My favorite part about my interview with him was hearing about his participation in Hackathon and how he used data science in his project. He described how his team created a geospatial map for natural disaster areas, so they coded a machine to look at overhead pictures of houses and buildings to see what level of damage they had and how to fix it. I thought it was so interesting to hear about his day-to-day tasks as well, because he works with people a lot since he is a manager. His advice to me was to learn as much as possible and then understand how to apply it, which I thought was really interesting. My second interview was with Mr. Brett Beattie, a data scientist at Match.com. I thought it was so interesting to hear how data is implemented there! He works in the “searching and matching” area, which means he implements algorithms to match people with similarities in the app. Both of my interviews this week were really interesting and I am so glad I was able to meet with both of them. I also worked more on my original work by designing more of my app. I also researched more on the JSON files, which I found to be so interesting! I need to code them in Python, which will be fun but challenging because I am not too advanced in Python yet. I am watching some videos to start learning about how to code JSON files in Python, and I also found a random output generator that Mr. Dan Holman suggested to me during my interview with him. It seems really cool and I may try to implement it!