Kazi Niaz Ahmed

My experience at Research For Action was excellent. As a Research Intern, I have learnt a great deal from this internship. Along with solid coding skills, I have also immensely developed my time management skills, both of which will benefit me in the long run. Most importantly, I have made valuable connection through this internship which will be…[Read more]

One important thing I could not learn from class was the method of organizing my code. For my MIS 3501 class, I had written a lot of code but could never organize the code I had written in a proper way. Organizing code requires a lot of commenting and maintaining a consistent pattern so that another coder can read your code properly. In my…[Read more]

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.…[Read more]

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…[Read more]

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…[Read more]