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Crunch Time

Date: 8/9/16

Activities: Continuing the Data Stories

Technical Information: OpendataSoft, HTML

Our open data story project started off relatively small, but it has continually grown the past month. We used to only have one story; now we have nine. With this dramatic increase in the number of stories, we are working harder than ever. We spend a lot of time in the quiet break room brainstorming and perfecting our work. We will have a meeting with the PR people soon to discuss our stories and how they will roll it out.

Heading into this internship, I wasn't very sure as to what I wanted to study in college. However, this experience has had a great influence on that. I have started looking at doing something like statistics as a degree. Working with data is something that I really enjoy and I didn't really know that before this summer.



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