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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site Industry Experience in MIS-SPRING 2018 6 years, 4 months ago
What have you learned in the classroom that you have leveraged in your internship? Please respond by commenting to this post.
Please check the gradebook to see if you are missing any assignments. You wil […]
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 4 months ago
Here is the exercise.
And here is the spreadsheet to complete the exercise [In-Class Exercise 8.2 – OnTime Airline Stats [Jan 2014].xlsx].
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 4 months ago
Here is the exercise.
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 4 months ago
Some quick instructions:
You must complete the quiz by the start of class on March 19.
When you click on the link, you may see a Google sign in screen. Use your AccessNet ID and password to sign in. It […] -
Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 4 months ago
Here are the assignment instructions. Groups MUST be 4 or 5 members. You may not do this assignment on your own or in smaller groups than 4.
The assignment is due April 23, 2018. We’ll do the pre […]
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 4 months ago
Here is the exercise.And here is the dataset you’ll need [Vandelay Orders by Zipcode.xlsx].
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site Industry Experience in MIS-SPRING 2018 6 years, 4 months ago
It’s hard to balance your schoolwork and your internship. Tell us how you are handling it and what tips you have for keeping it all together.
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At times it can be difficult to manage working and being in school full time but its all about time management. I would suggest either writing things down in a planner or putting things in your Google calendar. It helps me when I put all tasks that need to be done like homework, studying for an exam, tasks for work, etc. My phone gives me a reminder because one person can only remember so much. Also, it helps me to relieve stress because if you don’t write things down or store them somewhere than you will constantly have it in your head and it will be stressful.
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The most important tool in order manage time between internship and schoolwork is to plan well ahead of time as much as possible. All courses usually have most of the assignments, exams, and deliverables outlined at the beginning of the semester.Therefore, it is important to locate those times of the semester during which you can expect there to be a lot of pressure. Therefore, it would be wise to prepare for the exams or assignments for these times beforehand. This can help to relieve a lot of pressure during high-demand times.
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I keep a pretty detailed schedule in google calendar and sync those activities across my devices so that I can be on top of what I need to do. This is important in regards to slicing out time for relaxing and blowing off steam. Articulating clear expectations about work schedule and work tasks is also incredibly import for organizing time to study as well.
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It can be challenging to manage your school work with your internship, but there are ways to make it easier to manage. The things that I do and the tips I would have for managing the both together would be to buy a planner. The planner makes it easier to organize the work that needs to be done and when it needs to be done. It helps with choosing which work you should get done first. Also, another tip I would have is to not procrastinate on your school work. The earlier you start on your school work, the less stressed you will be when managing it along with your internship.
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Christian,
Your efforts are have not gone unnoticed and when all else fails stay up late (like 2:38AM) to get the job done, right? Lol
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I love to believe I’m an organized person, however there’s always going to be a time or two something takes priority over another and you have to delegate, delay, or dismiss a task. Our office uses Outlook Office365 ProPlus and the calendar syncs to my iPhone which syncs to my apple watch. When there’s a meeting or task assigned I get an alert. GE operates globally in 170 + countries with an employee base over 295K its difficult scheduling a meeting where everyone’s available. Skills that allow you to organize and prioritize your work load are essential. I like to take notes in OneNote which I can look at on my iPad or Phone and position first by deadline then by priority. It’s not foolproof but it helps, although I did just submit my status report 2 a day late.
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The first time experiencing working 20 hours part-time internship and studying at school can be hard. I suggest schedule everything carefully, Since working and studying together, there will be many things that need to accomplish. what I do is that I create a reminder on my phone with all the deadlines for assignments at school. By that way, I never forgot or passed the deadlines. I keep updating that reminder every day before I go to bed and check to see if there will be anything I needed to do tomorrow. That is how I balance my schoolwork and internship.
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One of the things that I do is I plan my day ahead the night before. It takes only about 5-7 minutes but saves a lot of time the next day. Another thing that I do is write everything out in my reminders. While this may not be the greatest thing to improve one’s memory, it helps to minimize forgetfulness and reminds me of when I need to do a certain task. This ensures that I’m not late for any deadlines for assignments or work that I have to do.
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Completing work tasks is fairly easy to stay on top of,as, for me, they do not typically veer outside of my working hours. Sometimes, schoolwork can fall through the cracks, though. To stay on top of things, I use a no-frills to-do list. I use the sticky notes app on my laptop, and list out my courses. For the current week, the previous week (if something lingers), and the upcoming week, I list all my assignments and tasks to do under the course header. As I complete items, I simply put an “X” next to the task. I have used a paper agenda before, and I find that this works much better as I don’t have to remember to look at it; it’s right in front of me every time I open my computer (which is far more than I did my agenda). For my availability and schedule, I use Google calendars, and simply block out my classes, work times, and any other important things such as doctors appointments.
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Balancing work and school is not easy, but I have found that spending some time on keeping everything organized helps the most. First, I have the privilege of working and going to school on opposite days, which helps in not getting mixed up between tasks. Second, I keep a planner with work and school tasks so that I can see my week/month laid out and am able to plan ahead if there is a certain week that I am busier than others. This planning ahead is key to time/stress management come midterm season! I also have a school task/reminder list and a work task/reminder list so that I may focus on each area separately, these items are stored centrally on my OneNote. Items are crossed off when they are complete, and I move on to the next task.
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Balance is key. Luckily, at the time I was doing the internship it was over the summer. That being said, I was working it full time and balancing a couple projects that I was working on. So, it is definitely key to stick ahead of schedule and note that you need to get XYZ done by X date so you can ensure that nothing will fall behind. Overall. it was great to learn and work – life balance will be extremely real for me come May. So, it was good to get an idea of what that will look like in the future.
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For the past year I have been working 25 hours a week at my internship while also attending classes full time. Balance is definitely important if you want to succeed at both and not under perform at school or at work. I was not able to take my classes and work on different days so I mostly chose to take many night class. I attended work during the day and classes at night and luckily my job gave me an hour or two a day to prep for school. I tried to plan ahead the night before for any assignments and homework where due. This year has taught me a lot of useful organizational methods as I tried to balance work and classes together.
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I am huge with checklists. I always immediately write down everything I need to do and put a box next to it. I also was able to prioritize each objective by placing a star or highlighting what needed to be done sooner. Additionally, I always set reminders for myself. Most of the time they are through Google Calendars, or I can tell Siri “Remind me about xyz on Tuesday at 3 PM” and it will work well.
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Luckily, my Internship falls on days I don’t have class, but I still have to worry about what’s due the following day when I do have class. I have found that using a planner can help out immensely. Being a very visual person, it is great to see everything on page of what I have due in the coming days/weeks. With those in mind I make sure to create checkpoints along the way, and schedule out tasks that need to be completed. This has saved both time and stress when trying to balance school and work.
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Micromanaging time is necessary esp for me as I have two part-time jobs including my internship and full-time school work. Having the work-life balance is critical. I use tools like google calendar it helps me organize my tasks and meetings. I find the inbuilt checklist feature in google calendar very helpful. I also have solid time slots allocated for school work and internship work. This approach may seem siloed but it works well as I like to that both work and school differentiated.
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The best way to balance the working life and school works are time management. This semester i start using scheduled mapping as my primary tool for time management (AKA calendar). By planning everything ahead of time usually a month before the due date, and recorded the tasks to the calendar to keep track of the works needed to be done. At times it gets difficult sometimes especially when all of the tests, assignments and works all packed together. However, by allocating sufficient time to it, it just get easier and easier.
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The most important tip I can give to be able to handle school work and the internship is to work ahead of time as well as use google calendar. I would try and get any school work I had to do done a few days ahead of time so then I could worry about actual work only. At times when I had a lot going on I would always use google calendar so that I could check my schedule for each day and so I can manage my time most effectively.
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 4 months ago
Some quick instructions:
You must complete the quiz by the start of class on March 12.
When you click on the link, you may see a Google sign in screen. Use your AccessNet ID and password to sign in. […] -
Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 5 months ago
Here are the instructions (in Word) (and as a PDF). Make sure you read them carefully! This is an assignment that should be done individually. Please turn in both the answer sheet and your clean spre […]
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 5 months ago
Here is the exercise.
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 5 months ago
Some quick instructions:
You must complete the quiz by the start of class on February 26.
When you click on the link, you may see a Google sign in screen. Use your AccessNet ID and password to sign in. […] -
Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 5 months ago
Here is the exercise.
And here is the graphic file you’ll need: Philadelphia Area Obesity Rates.png
Right-click on the file and save it to your computer.
Email me your completed infographic by Monday, F […]
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site Industry Experience in MIS-SPRING 2018 6 years, 5 months ago
For the powerpoint outline you may submit to me a one page word document basically listing what you will cover in your powerpoint in bullet format. Your draft then will be your rough slides in powerpoint.
Let […]
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 5 months ago
Here is the study guide for the first midterm exam.
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site Industry Experience in MIS-SPRING 2018 6 years, 5 months ago
What are the most important skills (business/technical) and people that you have discovered in your internship? Is there a skill that you didn’t have before but realize that you absolutely need? Is there a per […]
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One of the most important skills that I discovered during my internship was knowing how to use excel. I’ve taken the excel class offered by Temple University but I never actually applied them to work. At Independence Blue Cross, Business Technology Services Department- I realized that excel is used often to store data and analyze it. There were people that I’ve met that do not use excel efficiently. Instead of using formulas, they are manually tying in data. I realized I could help them be more efficient and this helped me get noticed by the head of the department. Since excel is a big part of the BTS department – I got to know someone on the Data Tools team which helped me because I was able to ask him questions about excel and he even taught me some formulas.
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It amazes me how much can actually be done in excel, I’ve seen some complex dashboards that pull data from multiple sheets, to create pivot tables, charts, and tables. They serious look like it’ll be a full time job just to manage…It kind of makes me interested in what these new start-ups that promote “drop the spreadsheets” have to offer.
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There are many skills that are absolutely necessary at my job to do anything. For example, someone in my position must be able to hold large amounts of math in their head, while paying attention to what other people are saying. It is important to keep up with the math being described by other as they say it. This is a difficult task that one must get used to. Another skill is the ability to invent formulas using by understanding how the numbers are intended or should move around. Such as, figuring out how to get the cost per lines received for a certain department between certain dates. It is important to remember the order that the database reads data because you could be receiving the wrong info if you write code in the wrong order. Overall, being able to do statistics, calculus and see a clear picture of how the database should look, in your head is the most important skill for the job.
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The most important skills that I have discovered in my internship are communication and excel skills. When I first came into my internship, I did not realize that excel was so important, but excel was needed for a lot of the everyday tasks at the company. Also, the most important people that I have discovered during my internship were my career coaches. Career coaches at the company are people assigned to you that are suppose to tell you what you are doing well at in the company and what you need to improve on. Career coaches are also the people that I discovered that I need on my side because they are the ones that will take your side on if you should get a full time offer with the company or not.
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Personally, refining my soft skills and business acumen skills were crucial for success and personal development. There are many times discussions pop up unexpectedly (water cooler) where you’ll need to be sharp with a response; understanding the business’s internal terminology and how decisions impact each department allows you to align your key priorities (Xs) with the business objectives and outcomes (Ys). The technical skills I’ve leverage are primarily problem-solving skills for troubleshooting, there’s always going to be someone struggling with technology, having the ability to provide value by logically and methodically working through software/hardware issues is a huge benefit. Especially when it involves colleagues you routinely work with in team settings, or a senior people leader that urgently needs support that is unavailable.
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A decent knowledge of how networks function in an enterprise setting has been a huge part of my internship and knowing how they facilitate the communication of people, applications, and processes across the organization has been crucial. This is also something I’ve had to learn about specifically for this job because I don’t have an extensive background in networking. I’ve noticed that it’s important to have our project manager on my side, at least enough so that they’re willing to hear me out when I voice my concerns or ideas about a specific topic. Having their ear has been really helpful with getting quick feedback on ideas that I might have.
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One of the most important skills that I have learned during the internship is to report efficiently to Excel. Although I had taken the Excel class at Temple, I did not have experience using Excel for efficient reporting in the real world. Working with Fox Run Brands, I have to report thousands of products on Amazon to Excel to keep track of the growth weekly. That was hectic and confusing at the first time. However, I got used to it and my Excel skills improved a lot.
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The most important skill that I learned throughout my internship is documentation and presentation. When I first started my internship one of my team members was retiring from his position and he wanted me to learn as much as I could throughout his last couple months. As an Analyst documentation is very important, and I was taught how to write a business requirement document, status meeting documents, tests case documents, timelines, etc. His role also consisted of facilitating meeting between business executives and IT directors to rank IT projects and discuss their future. I picked up very useful presentation skills and I even had to chance to facilitate one of these meetings. I mastered a lot of these skills and the person I have to thank for it is my co-worker which recently retired from the company.
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Coding with Stata is one of the most important skills that I have gained from my internship so far. This tool has given me a lot more control while editing large, inconsistently formatted Excel files. This is a skill that will help me not only in this particular internship but will also be very helpful for any quantitative analysis tasks in the future. One of the most important person I have discovered in my internship is the Research Analyst who is leading the project I am working on. His patience and friendliness has helped me a lot to adapt to the company’s culture and standards. One skill that I did not initially have but needed the most was to explain my code while actually writing the code. It is very important to explain what a particular code does so that another coder can clearly understand my code and work on it. Other people who I definitely want on my side are the other interns who are working on the same project as I am. Collaborating with them can help me find many ways through critical problems that I face while fulfilling my assignments.
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The most important skill during my internship was to be able to integrate knowledge. Whether it was previous knowledge learned from school or new information that I learned during the various projects and clients, I had to learn how to see how all the pieces fit. To become a successful security consultant, you need to have a good basis of basic knowledge of networks, vulnerabilities, exploits, and operating systems Additionally, I was learning all new tools and methods to perform Vendor Assessments, Cloud Security Risk Assessments, and Penetration Tests. A person that I would want to have on my side is a mentor who has walked a similar path. My peer advisor for the internship was that person which helped me greatly to learn this skill.
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There are many important business and technical skills in the workplace. While I find it imperative to have technological, organizational, and other business skills, I feel that without having great communication as a foundation, it can be difficult for work to be done in some situations. For example, 75% of my team at AmerisourceBergen works in Frisco Texas, requiring the team to communicate via email, skype, and the phone, rather than having the luxury of communicating in person. Knowing what your communication vehicle is, what you are communicating, and how you will communicate that is extremely important to consider at work. For example, a badly written email about a project can lead to stirring up confusion about the project and can delay work being done. Sometimes, it is good to get a peer review from a coworker before sending communications at work– if your message doesn’t make sense to them, it could be a weak form of communication.
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When working at my previous internships, I learned a skill that has changed how I am in both the workplace and in school. The most important skill I saw throughout many of my managers was the ability to plan. Planning can be used in both a business ad technical term, as to what it may apply. They all seemed to follow a common thread, create short term goals to make sure their work is on track, but to also keep them or the team motivated. I often saw these managers taking up whatever work was given to them, because they could plan it out accordingly and multitask with other tasks. Learning from this, I often use it in school now when I have a paper due or a test to study for, take it in small increments and you will excel.
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Working at SAP has gave me a good exposure to not just technical side of my role but also business side. There are many tasks that I am in charge of that require people skills and good communication skills. One of the big challenges is getting information for my role from higher ups. I work with a lot of documents at the same time and I realized that it is very critical to draft and version all the drafts with date and alterations. My Manager is my go-to person that helps me organize the data drafts and charts that I make. Because my role is very agile oriented my manager gave me a few tips to make the drafts more accessible.
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Working at Union League makes me realizes Communication skills and business skills are really important for the internship. Being a good communicator allows us to solve the problems more efficiently, articulate the idea in an approach that are relatable to the stakeholders. In other words, by having a great communicating skills we can streamline the communication and decrease the frequency of misunderstanding. Having sufficient business skills can really put us in a different position, with the business skills it allows us to understand whether a project has a business value to the company or not.
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While interning at Tonic the most important skill I needed was communication skills. I was expecting to use my leadership skills more than communication skills however I had to use my communication skills to know how I should communicate with coworkers based on whether they liked to be directly approached or if I should just slack them. Also, I used writing skills when communicating with clients via email. The one person who I always wanted on my side was Leon, who was the head of operations; he was always able to convince people to go his way whenever there was an important decision to be made.
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 5 months ago
Here is the exercise.
Before you start, save this Tableau file and the studentloans2013 Excel workbook to your computer. Remember, to save the file right-click on the link and choose “Save As…” (don’ […]
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 5 months ago
Here is the assignment.
Here is the worksheet as a Word document to make it easy to fill in and submit (along with your Tableau file).
And here is the data file you will need to complete the assignment […]
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 5 months ago
Here is the exercise.
And here is the spreadsheet you’ll need to complete the exercise [In-Class Exercise 4.2 – FoodAtlas.xlsx].
Make sure you right-click on the Excel file link and select “Sa […]
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Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 5 months ago
Some quick instructions:
You must complete the quiz by the start of class on February 12.
When you click on the link, you may see a Google sign in screen. Use your AccessNet ID and password to sign in. […] -
Laurel Miller wrote a new post on the site MIS 0855: DATA SCIENCE SPRING 2018 6 years, 5 months ago
Here is the exercise
Here are the links in case you cannot click from the document.
History, Economics and Social Issues
Science and Health
English, Fine Arts and Entertainment
Remember to […]
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Bad Graphic: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2008/05/22/us/20080522_SMOKING.html
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I feel like I have been able to apply more material from Temple than a lot of my peers in MIS programs at other schools. During training, I was familiar with many of the topics covered. As training went on, many of the topics expanded on things I grazed in school, which made comprehending the expansions easier. I used a lot of process diagramming in my internship, which was covered in a few of my MIS courses. Another big topic that classes helped me with was enterprise systems. Just knowing what SAP looked like and having done a few basic actions in the system was really helpful when learning more about it. Having prior exposure to topics in class definitely made me feel more comfortable completing projects in my internship.
The technical classes like MIS 3501, 3502, 2501, and 2502 in our MIS program helped me the most during my internship. Because I have a lot of outside curiosity, I was able to try out different things in the classroom which helped me to solidify the material learned during class even better. Using these technical skills I was able to understand what was going on at certain projects when other MIS or even IST majors didn’t. An example of my application of MIS 2501 would be when we had a workshop on Active Directory (AD) and how to exploit it. Becuase we have practiced creating a domain that had Active Directory in MIS 2501, I was able to understand the workshop and follow it.
MIS 2502 (Data Analytics) is a course that has helped me tremendously in my internship. In this class, I learnt to use R and R studio which was the basis of my learning of Stata. Coding with Stata is very similar to coding with R. Since proficiency with Stata is an important requirement for my internship, I had to learn how to use Stata on my own. My knowledge of R helped me a lot to accomplish this goal. Moreover, from MIS 3501, I learned how to use loops which I also have had to use in some of my codes in my internship.
The number one skilled I learned at school was presentation skills- from all my MIS classes as well as Business Communication class. Before taking those classes I was always very nervous presenting in front of the class, but after presenting over and over again I have become more comfortable. I am able to utilize my presentation skills in my internship by presenting about what I am working on, help with training new hires, helping co-workers with their presentations, etc. At Independence Blue Cross PMO a big part of being a good project manager is being able to communicate and present. Since I want to become a project manager, classes at Temple has help me tremendously with my presentation skills.
The class that has contributed most to my internship is MIS2501. Writing the flash research papers was particularly beneficial for me because it taught me how to write concisely and deliver only key information in a time crunch, especially when writing communications to executives. While the flash research exams were quite difficult for me, I use the skills learned from writing these papers every day. Furthermore, the I use the knowledge from using virtual machines quite regularly, as many of my current projects are cyber security engineering tasks requiring the use of virtual servers and accessing them remotely.
the courses MIS2502 (Data Analytics) and MKTG3508 (Digital Marketing) provided me many skills that has leveraged my internship. For the course MIS2502, I have learned how to analyze data and create reports. These skills help me a lot since I have to analyze large number of data during the internship. Besides, the course MKTG3508 gave me the knowledge about Search Engine Optimization. My internship is Search Engine Optimization intern; therefore, I have to work a lot with finding the effective SEO strategies for the company. This class made me understand how to do it.
A class that really helped me in my internship was my Business Communications class at Temple. In that class, I learned how to write professional emails and communicate in a professional manner so I was able to leverage this in my internship. This was a very important skill for me to have because in my internship, communicating with my team, bosses, and clients were a major key to my success within the internship. If I never took the Business Communications class, I would not have known how to write a business professional email or how to present well to my team and clients.
The courses that assisted me the most at my internship were MIS2502 (Data Analytics) and MIS 2501 (Enterprise IT Architecture). For the MIS2502 class, the excel skills that were taught in the form of data analysis were invaluable because excel is a central application that is used to keep track of everything. Additionally, MIS2501 helped when I was doing an Active Directory Audit. In the planning meetings for this audit, there was confusion about where the active directory users and computers were located, and I used the information that I learned in this course in this meeting. Unfortunately, they assigned me to Unix/ Linux audits and they assigned the other intern to windows audits, so I helped her with the knowledge that I learned from MIS2501.
The courses that have helped me the most throughout my internship have been MIS 3506 (Business Analyst) and MIS 3535 (Project Management). I learned all the terminology to start and finish a real world project in a business setting and also the ability to lead a real project from start to finish. 3506 taught me how to collect requirements, model processes, data and design solutions to client problems. I performed similar tasks with the current project I am on as I wrote requirements , risk analysis and also use cases. The presentation skills through these two courses really helped me present my status reports to the IT shareholders within the organization. The MIS program helped me succeed in my internship.
The two courses that have helped me the most in my current internship have been Excel for Business Application (BA 2104) and Data Analytics (MIS 2502). Excel for Business Application taught me how to fully utilize Excel in a business setting through advanced applications. Since most of the data is placed onto an excel file at my internship, we use these advanced excel skills learned to analyze the data. Data Analytics taught me about SQL and R and data overall. Currently, we are testing a data set to see how likely consumers are to buy a certain product at a baseball stadium based on the factors of weather, day of week and opponent. By learning R, I am able to test and see if there is a correlation between any of the factors. The Fox School of Business curriculum has certainly helped me in my internship.
For me the most useful skill I’ve learned and leveraged from school is the importance of networking. Grades, work ethic, skill, knowledge, and everything else that one works to develop will only take you so far before it is who you know rather than what; the exception would be if you were maybe in the top five percentiles. That’s not to discourage anyone either, I’m just saying the culture of our society as well as others, tend to favor strong relationships. Leveraging networks, opens the door to opportunities we don’t even see are there., almost by coincidence.
At SAP, I have significant data analysis and BI work. I have developed this skill from my data science and data analytics class. The excel formulas, tips and trips I learned in these classes has made my job easier. Lumira, a Business Intelligence program by SAP is very similar to Tableau which I learned in Data Science. The skills I learned in these classes helped with data related tasks. I am learning many project management skills in MIS 3535 that I have used while managing short projects at SAP.
The classroom has helped me a lot with all types of jobs. Especially, this internship. The task I had was vague. “Create a version 2.0, but version 1.0 is great” I really had to focus on thinking outside the box and going at the project in a different way. I broke everything down and looked at each part. What did everyone like at each separate part? What could be done differently? How could it be different and more effective? From there, I used the skills I learned in MIS3501 to learn Microsoft access and create a new tool for the team.
Based on the experience I had from the internship I realized how MIS is beneficial to the job on the following points:
Data analytics: Utilize Excel to find detailed information; moreover, by using the “data analysis”, “Pivot table” functions to complete data analysis.
Project Management: How I use the skills: See, Feel and Change to change the attitude among executives, and how to prepare documents for the project.
IT Architecture: Learning how to use VM, joining Domain, creating groups, and managing the internal network.
MIS 3506: How I gather all of the essential requirements from the stakeholders, documents the requirements and validate the project making sure the project reaches the majority of the demands.
Things that I have learned in the classroom that I used throughout my internship was the web development skills(MIS 3501), document business requirements(MIS 3506), and project management skills(MIS 3535). During my internship, I did not write any code, but there were times where I had to understand the code and what it was doing and learning functions, variables, etc. from MIS 3501 helped me throughout my internship. For multiple projects that I was on I had to create business requirement documents and then turn those requirements into user stories for the developers, learning how to document requirements effectively in MIS 3506 helped me with this portion of my internship. Last, I worked with project managers during my internship to estimate the cost of a project, draft status reports, and lead team meetings. I did all of this in MIS 3535 so having that experience definitely helped so i could contribute during my internship.
Data analysis skills from classes like Data Analytics as well as the gen-ed Data-science have been a big help here. Also softer skills that help with work presentations and communicating with my co-workers have been a huge help. I think FOX has definitely adequately prepped me for the working world, while things may not mirror our academic experiences, they definitely gave me enough of a background to be able to handle different work problems, when they occur.