Martin A Esser-Munera

My experience with VIP was extremely informative and helped me further my technical skills as well as professional skills. My data analysis skills have significantly improved as well as my ability to use excel on an advanced level. I will not be staying part or full time at VIP because the position was unpaid and left me un-motivated to continue.…[Read more]

The most important aspect that is not taught in the classroom is being able to actually apply the knowledge learned in class. Everyone who goes to school is capable of learning and retaining knowledge the way a professor presents it. However when shifting into the real life work environment its so important that you are able to apply all the…[Read more]

I cannot attribute my internship success to just one classroom skill. I would say however it is a mix between professor Doyle’s flash papers, Gottliebs excel course, and the Business Analysis course. Almost every day I am working within excel, even when pulling reports from LegalServer – I am then downloading them as excel files to analyze and use…[Read more]

Going to school and having a one or more jobs has been my life since I became i lifeguard at 16. To me balancing priorities and work and school and whatever else is simply a necessary part of life. There have only been minor times when I found myself missing assignments or work because I couldn’t balance my time correctly. I believe it has to do…[Read more]

When I began to work for VIP there was a lot of information to digest very quickly for me to jump into my work. After realizing that everyone in the office was more than friendly it was easier to get settled in. The most important thing I had to find out on my own and remember to always do was carry a notepad of sorts with me at all times. This…[Read more]

Hello all,
I worked with Philadelphia VIP in center city Philadelphia for the past year within their Operations Management team. VIP is a legal services firm that works to connect low income Philadelphian’s with Pro-Bono lawyers who can help them with their cases. My primary supervisor is the Director of Operations, however I more closely worked…[Read more]

1) A business could use decision trees for many things, for example marketing a new drug to a certain geographic location. Whether their return on adverting would be worthwhile to deploy marketing in that area. Data used for this analysis would be, age, gender, income, average usage of drug or similar drugs, etc.

I decided to check out some cool R packages. R is extremely powerful in data analysis and with the right packages you can accomplish an extensive amount of data analysis. I looked at a package called “vcd”. VCD stands for “Visualizing Categorical Data”. The package contains visualization techniques, data sets, summary and inference code aimed at…[Read more]

I found this info-graphic on Bitcoin and world finance on dailyinfographic.com: http://www.dailyinfographic.com/bitcoin-2015s-best-performing-currency
I choose this info-graphic because of how accurately and visually it describes how bitcoin is on the rise. The graphic does a wonderful job in illustrating how bitcoin is growing, as well as how it…[Read more]

A basic example of a database joining tables could be an IT company needing to see which customers had a tech come in and perform a specific task. For example they could join a “customer” table as well as a “task table” and “date” table to see exactly what task, say, HDD replacement, on which date and all of the customer details. Joining tables in…[Read more]

I think the toughest part, at least for me, is determining cardinalities based off of the problem statement. I think its always confusing trying to explain the relationships between everything. My advice would be to carefully read and try to understand the relationships. For example when reading the problem statement underline what each entity…[Read more]

During my time working for Postmate’s, I was enlisted to the “street team”. If youre unfamiliar with Postmates, it is essentially a delivery service app that delivers food or whatever you want/need within an hour to you. With the street team we had to do some flyering, or “canvasing” to get the word out about Postmates in Philadelphia while, then…[Read more]