Take A Break! - #7

October 20, 2019

With my data science course on Udemy and three interviews complete, I took this week to step back and think about what I really want to make of this program. I thought about the people I have interviewed so far and came to a conclusion that I want to interview more people to gain more insight into the field and see different perspectives. I scheduled an interview with Ms. Monisha Elumalai, and am setting up another with Ms. Ksenia Luu. Ms. Elumalai is a Programmer Analyst at Walmart, so I am excited to hear another perspective on the STEM field. After researching about a programmer analyst, I discovered that it sounds like something I would really enjoy. It is a mix between data science, programming, and business, which is what I am looking for in a career. Ms. Luu is a Senior Data Scientist at inVision, a product design company. When I looked at her company, I fell in love. The cross-section between product design and something more technical, such as data science, makes it so interesting to me because while I love analytics, product design and business are something I never want to lose sight of. I also continued my Udemy course to work towards my original work, and I continued to brainstorm how I will complete my project. I remembered a software that my sister used during her internship at Quizlet: Sketch. I plan to use the data feature on sketch, which allows you to design an app and input data for the app to run on. This would allow me to have an app for my idea to run on, without having to actually code the app.