I'm Luke Kampwerth and I'm a senior studying philosophy. I heard about the internship when I watched a presentation on the ATLAS program in my logic class. I am a Data Analyst for the Humanities Professional Resource Center (HPRC). My responsibilities include taking data provided to me by my client and breaking it into cohorts. I can then make inferences and interpretations of the data to give recommendations to help the HPRC reach out to more students. I am also asked to help organize data in Excel sheets to give the client a more understandable data set to present to students and faculty. As of now, I am working on a project which collects data from the HPRC and the U of I databases. I break the data down into various demographics to measure the amount of humanities majors present in the U of I system and how many humanities majors are visiting the HPRC for advice and resources. My secondary task is to take a large Excel sheet full of job information from Handshake.com and to generalize it into various categories. Those categories will eventually be presented to a professor who wishes to use them to show the opportunities humanities majors have post graduation. I have developed skills in professional communication, especially in remote work due to the circumstances, and in sourcing data and information for projects. I also value the experience of organizing data in various programs and learning how to use those programs' features. As of now, I am planning on going to graduate school for philosophy. As a fun fact, my current favorite pastime is learning piano and my favorite class is oddly "Symbolic Logic".
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