Yash Patel is a senior studying Economics and he heard about this internship program in an email from the Economics Department. He interns for the Student Money Management Center as a Data Analyst intern, who is responsible for coding and analyzing social media and Bursar email data.  This includes collecting data from the social media site, cleaning the data, then using Tableau to make visualizations. The team uses the visualizations to determine if any changes need to made to the social media communication strategy. Currently Yash is working with other data analysts on statically analyzing SMMC e-newsletter data. They are looking for relationships or correlations between different variables to determine ways to increase open and click rates. For example, they are looking at whether the amount of characters that are in the subject line of an email have an effect on the open rate of that email. Yash hopes to become a Data or Business Analyst in the future. This internship has taught him writing and verbal communication skills, along with new programming languages like python and R, and learned how to use them to perform statistical analysis. He gained a lot of knowledge about the professional world and how to present himself to employers.  A fun fact about him is he loves to play video games in his free time and he recently started investing!