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The US consists of a diverse population where people are becoming more aware of the need for diversity, inclusion, and mental health proficiency across the job market. In this project, you will learn to identify, explain, and distinguish mental-health-informed leadership qualities that will be effective in nowadays workplace environments. You will present a report of case study analysis, where you get to utilize and apply the skills that you have learned in the previous weeks. The case study will be displaying trauma-informed and culturally proficient leadership skill.
Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you will develop skills that will showcase the ability to navigate interpersonal interactions through the lens of mental-health awareness. You will be equipped for challenges outside your own context of culture or identity development to provide a positive and effective work environment.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into healthcare data analysis. From identifying trends in disease outbreaks to forecasting future healthcare needs, this project will challenge you to navigate real-world data complexities while sharpening your analytical skills.
You will produce a comprehensive project report that details the entire data analysis process, from initial data collection and cleaning to advanced predictive modeling and result interpretation. Additionally, you will create a visually compelling presentation that highlights key insights, methodologies used, and implications for public health research and practice. These deliverables will not only demonstrate your mastery of data science techniques in the healthcare industry but also showcase your ability to effectively communicate complex findings—an essential skill for future roles in data-driven positions within healthcare and beyond.
By mastering techniques in data cleaning, exploratory analysis, and predictive modeling, you'll not only unlock valuable insights crucial for public health decision-making but also equip yourself with the indispensable skills sought after in entry-level roles across various sectors of the U.S. society, where data-driven decision-making is paramount for addressing pressing healthcare challenges and improving population well-being.
As companies increasingly depend on vast data volumes for strategic decisions, analysts face the challenge of managing an overwhelming array of tables and data sources not tailored to their needs, leading to repetitive tasks and inconsistencies in analysis due to varied methodologies. In this Build Project, you'll take on the role of a Data Engineer, embarking on a mission to streamline the process for VC analysts by leveraging GitHub data to spotlight emerging open-source technology trends that could signal lucrative investment opportunities. Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you’ll develop, configure, and maintain a system designed to periodically fetch, store, and refine Github data, making it readily accessible and useful for data analysts. All this will unfold in a setting that mirrors the real-world operations of a data-driven organization, providing you with practical experience and insights into the challenges and solutions in managing and analyzing large datasets for strategic decision-making.
Dive into web development with the creation of a Movie List System that offers users a platform to explore their favorite films. Through this project, you'll delve into React development, integrating RESTful APIs, and implementing essential features such as react hooks and asynchronous functions. By honing your skills in front-end and back-end development, you'll build a solid foundation that will I am sure encourage you explore more complex development.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant global threat to our ability to treat common bacterial infections and save lives. Hidden in bacterial genomic DNA is the key to understanding the causes of resistance, and hence our ability to treat these infections. In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of a Data Scientist and build a simple machine learning pipeline to turn raw data into an AMR prediction. Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you'll get exposed to genomic data processing approaches, featurization for machine learning, training machine learning models and how to fairly evaluate and analyze your model’s performance. You'll become familiar with common industry tools and approaches like Python, Git & GitHub, data science packages (pandas, scikit-learn), cross validation and hyperparameter tuning amongst others. You'll become familiar with common industry tools and approaches like Python, data science packages (pandas, scikit-learn), cross validation and hyperparameter tuning amongst others.
Embark on an exciting journey into the world of genetics and explore how different species evolve and defend against viruses. In this project, we'll focus on bacteria and archaea, studying their amazing defense system called CRISPR-Cas. By analyzing genetic data, you'll learn how to uncover the secrets of evolution. Through hands-on activities, you'll gain practical skills in genetics, data analysis, and bioinformatics, which are essential for entry-level roles in genetics research and data analysis. These skills are in high demand in today's competitive job market, supporting crucial advancements in fields like healthcare, agriculture, and biotechnology in the United States.
Any young career specialists who want to work in Venture Capital find it hard to understand how to break into this industry. One of the things that help a lot is having a prior VC experience. In this Build Project, you will wear the hat of a Venture Capital Analyst and prepare an investment memo for a potential gaming startup to perform financial, operational, and market due diligence. Under the supervision of an experienced Build Fellow, you will learn how a potential gaming startup investment opportunity will be analyzed and discussed to ultimately decide whether or not to invest. You will become familiar with financial modeling, operational modeling and various research methodologies that will aid you in your conclusion. All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real investment committee in a venture capital firm.
Data is the most critical asset for almost any type of business. Protecting this data is essential, but allowing production data to flow into less-secure environments can expose internal operations to risks. In this Build Project, you will take on the role of a Software Developer to implement a simple yet flexible set of data management instruments. This set of tools will automate the transformation, sanitization, obfuscation, and minimization of production data, ensuring its safety. Using Python and Airflow, you will design a tool that manages various data sources, such as relational and non-relational databases. This is an exciting opportunity to develop practical skills and create a project that showcases your ability to manage and protect data effectively.
With the US economy and population now being dominated by baby boomers (the demographic cohort born during the mid-40s and mid-60s), we face a significantly high number of individuals retiring from the workforce. In addition, we are in the middle of the biggest wealth transfer in the history of the U.S. This presents a great opportunity for individuals with skills to offer financial and investment advice.
In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of a Financial and Investment Research Analyst. You will showcase the ability to evaluate the current makeup of the investment portfolio using the profitability/valuation ratios and risk metrics to develop and design an investment strategy to align the portfolio to the current business and economic cycle. Under the supervision of an experienced industry expert, you'll compute the various investment ratios and statistical measurements used in portfolio construction and analysis. Also, you will evaluate the stock's common types of performance measurements and intrinsic value and explain how portfolio risk is used to develop efficient frontier/portfolios. You'll become familiar with industry tools/techniques/methodologies like Modern Portfolio Theory, Capital Asset Pricing Model, Ratio Analysis, and Efficient Market Hypothesis Concepts. All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real Financial and Investment Research Analyst.
To analyze urban patterns effectively, city planners collect extensive datasets that encompass a wide range of information, such as accidents, collisions, rule violations, congestion, and more. Understanding and interpreting these datasets is crucial for informed urban planning and development. Visualization plays a pivotal role in this process, serving as a powerful tool to capture trends, narrate stories, and identify the underlying causes of urban issues. It also aids in devising effective solutions to mitigate these problems.
In this Build Project, you will take on the role of an Urban Planner, focusing on visualizing city public datasets. Under the guidance of an experienced Build Fellow, you will develop a cutting-edge application using WebGL technology. This application will analyze publicly available urban data, process it, and present it in a user-friendly format. The goal is to create a tool that not only helps city planners and officials understand urban patterns and issues but also engages and informs the public. Your work will contribute to making data-driven decisions for improving urban mobility and enhancing the overall quality of life in the city.
You will be working on a project to help a growing tech company determine its enterprise value. This firm is considering a sale to a larger strategic or financial partner. They have already received several acquisition offers and need assistance in understanding their valuation to prepare for negotiations.
In this Build Project, you will take on the role of a Corporate Finance Analyst under the supervision of an experienced Build Fellow. You will prepare a forecasting model and a comprehensive enterprise valuation analysis using methods such as Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and Market Multiples. This will take place in an environment that simulates the operations of a real M&A or corporate finance team.
In this Build Project, you’ll wear the hat of Business Intelligence Engineer, by working on Customer Support on Twitter dataset, which is a large, modern corpus of tweets and replies to check, analyze and understand the pattern and conversations, and for study of modern customer support practices and impact.
From grant writing to conference talks, clear scientific communication can make or break the impact of a scientific discovery. This vital but underemphasized skill allows researchers of any level to demonstrate their understanding of complex scientific topics and bring their work to a broader audience. In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of a Science Journalist, creating an article that uses scientific illustration and interactive code elements to explain a recent discovery in the field of molecular biology. Under the supervision of an experienced Build Fellow, you'll select a recent paper from a prominent scientific journal and write a dense 1–2-page explainer that allows non-expert audiences to understand the findings, scientific context, and cultural relevance of the study. You'll become familiar with the writing conventions of scientific papers as well as data visualization and scientific illustration methods using tools like JavaScript D3 and Inkscape. All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real team in biotechnology research.
In this Build Project, you will learn how to write and understand basic Python programs. You will use the most popular Python libraries for data visualization, analysis and manipulation. In addition, you will learn about problem decomposition with the use of functions and control flow using logic and loops. In the last sessions, you will work on building your own final project, where you’ll be putting into practice the knowledge gathered throughout this project. This Build Project is different from most others because during it you’ll receive guidelines and support not from one but two Build Fellows!
This project is facilitated with the support of Ada Del Cid.
In most organizations, data is stored in hundreds or thousands of columns stored in multiple tables. With this level of complexity, it's often hard to understand the relation between tables, columns, views, and workflows. In this Build Project, you'll build a library that takes in a complicated data schema, analyzes all the existing relations, and provide a flow chart as an output to easily understand all the relations and how data flows in the system. All these skills are essential for the productive work of any specialist analyzing large datasets, and in this project, you have a chance to develop them under supervision of an experienced Project Leader.
Fast, reliable, and cost-effective diagnosis of dental radiographs is one of the grand challenges that dental healthcare providers face. In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of a Junior Software Engineer and build an end-to-end data pipeline that can process dental patient data. Under the supervision of an experienced Build Fellow, you'll learn how to use Python and rest api combined with google cloud to deploy a solution that can handle large data ingestion. You'll get exposed to the daily life of a Software Engineer in a data team and learn procedures and techniques that are must-to-know for any professional.
Allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) is the only cure for patients with blood, bone marrow and immune disorders. Understanding the underlying molecular biology behind HSC function, expansion, and differentiation is critical to improve cellular therapies for multiple diseases. In this Build Project, you will wear the hat of a Molecular Research Associate to perform RNA sequencing analysis and then identify relevant pathways and genes of interest in HSC functions. All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real Research team.
By the end of the 8-week project, students will develop deliverables for this project are focused on building artifacts that you can use to showcase your work in a job application. By the end of the micro-internship, you'll review an RNAseq gene pathway from human hematopoietic stem cells, perform a comparative analysis between multiple conditions, and develop gene knockout and genotyping designs. In the final project session, you'll present your results to the Project Leader in a format that mimics a job interview (so you’re ready to discuss your work in real-life interviews).
In this project, you will take on the role of a full stack Software Engineer to develop a dynamic form builder tailored for a specific industry. This JavaScript-based solution will enable users to create and edit forms, incorporating industry-specific features. Throughout this project, you will gain hands-on experience with the entire software development process, from ideation and design to production release. By the end of this project, you will have developed an interactive and user-friendly web application that meets specific client requests, showcasing your ability to handle core responsibilities of a Web Developer.
Manufacturing always requires specialists who can lay out the most effective way to produce goods – and who can keep improving these processes in the ever-changing business environment. In this Build Project, you'll wear the hat of a Project Engineer and analyze CAD product design. Under the supervision of an experienced Build Fellow, you'll produce a BOM, Time Study, Flowchart illustrating the manufacturing process. You will learn the ability to propose a more efficient process (less expensive, faster) for making that product. You'll become familiar with software tools like CAD, the process flow methodology, as well as manufacturing tools used in actual production. All this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real Engineering team.
All companies must make tradeoffs in navigating how to distribute limited resources (money, employees time) for optimal growth. In this Build Project, you will wear the hat of a Marketing Manager and propose an appropriate marketing event for your chosen company to target. Under the supervision of an experienced Build Fellow, you’ll leverage online sources to gather market research data, use it to propose a marketing event, and pitch your event in the final project session. You’ll become familiar with navigating online databases, running digital campaigns, modern approaches to market research, and tools like Canva and LinkedIn. All of this will happen in an environment that simulates the operations of a real-life marketing team.
Applying principles of Business, Finance, and Management, in this Build Project you will gather and analyze macroeconomic data, perform competition analysis, use financial modeling to project scenarios, and support strategic decisions for a high-tech software development company offering a game-changing technology in multiple markets ranging from banking, telecom, online services, and pharma. This will be an opportunity for students to experience contributing to a real-world project involving AI, Biometrics, and data privacy.
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