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Alex Dustin

Double Minor

Computer Science and Mathematics

Internship

Assistant Data Analyst at Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority in Boston, MA

Favorite Class

Advanced Data Analytics

What is the best thing about studying Data Science at Champlain?

I love the major. It’s relatively small, so I know everyone in all of my classes. I have all the same professors for most of my classes, and it’s nice to have a consistent classroom environment. With the Upside-Down Curriculum, I was engaged in my major from the start of my first semester.

Have you worked on any particularly rewarding projects?

One project I worked on in my Advanced Data Analytics class analyzed how names are pronounced. With that information, we generated a list of believable and pronounceable names. I found this particularly rewarding because I was able to use my knowledge from the class to make a practical application using our data.

Can you tell us about your internship?

I was an Assistant Data Analyst for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) in their Office of Performance Management & Innovation. My classes prepared me for this experience because the problems I tackled at my internship were similar to ones I’d already faced in the classroom. This internship will give me a competitive advantage when I graduate, because now I have experience dealing with real-world problems in a professional working environment.

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Dylan Longley

Advice to Students?

Do anything you find mildly interesting. You only have a limited time here, so do as much as you might ever want to do.

Favorite: Book, Movie, Podcast?

Books: Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Jon Trusheim

Double Minor

Computer Science and Mathematics

Internship

Research Associate Intern for MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation In Cambridge, MA

You switched majors from Game Programming to Data Science. How was that experience?

The Upside-Down Curriculum helped me realize that Game Programming wasn’t for me, but I knew I wanted to stay at Champlain because of the small classes and few tests. Dean Lawson—my advisor—and Wei Chan, the Assistant Dean for the division, suggested Data Analytics* because it was the mix of business and computer science that I wanted.
*Program name changed to Data Science for Fall 2020

What do you like most about the Data Science program?

I love the puzzle of working with different datasets. Each one has a question to answer, and it’s a fun adventure to figure out if the data answers or doesn’t answer that question. I’ve also loved all my classes with Narine Hall, because she is so willing to change up the class pacing based on how well we understand the material.

Do you feel prepared to graduate?

Yes. A lot of the master’s degrees that I was looking at seem to overlap a lot with the work that I was doing already in my classes. So yes, I do feel prepared for going out into the workforce.

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