Alan Qin is a Senior double-majoring in Statistics and Econometrics. He is a Data Analyst intern for Professor John Gallagher! Alan is responsible for performing data analysis using different softwares to research empirical typification. Alan is currently assisting Professor Gallagher in researching empirical typification by looking at the website experiment.com (think gofundme for research projects!) and exploring the correlation between money raised and the number of characters per research proposal. Alan accomplishes this by using Python and packages/libraries in Python to find descriptive statistics, generate statistical models, and build visualizations from the web scraped data experiment.com data. Alan hopes to acquire a data related role right out of college and then pursue a masters in computer science after a few years of working. A fun fact about Alan is that he is a apart of the Illini Badminton Intercollegiate Sports Club, and recently won the midwest intercollegiate tournament!