MARINE TRAFFIC First Year Postgraduate, DPhil in Materials, A mixture of in-person and remote working Work Projects This internship position offered by MarineTraffic was titled Data Scientist/Analyst for approximately ten weeks when I worked along with the other two interns supervised by the company partner and business unit manager. During the first two weeks, the company arranged onboarding sessions to introduce the industry, company and various teams within the company. These sessions were well prepared and helped me tune my mindset efficiently. At the same time, the host supervisor and business manager gradually introduced the business questions to be answered and the purpose of the internship project. As the title indicated, main tasks were centred around data analysis, including extracting data sets from the company’s database, cleaning and examining the data quality and finally building a dashboard for the prospective clients. In addition to the technical work, I also spent around twenty per cent of working hours understanding the business questions and prioritising different tasks. Finally, I produced collaboratively several dashboards that could be used either internally as a tool or externally as a showcase in the market. Daily Life The first couple of weeks of the internship was in-person. I cycled to the Oxford office every morning and had some lunch chat with the fellow intern and host supervisor, which was so great to have. Then, for the rest of the internship, it moved back to online. It came to be more flexible in terms of the working hours while we kept doing daily stand-up meetings remotely. I kept booking slots on my calendar to guarantee quality working hours and improve time management. We also arranged virtual coffee or tea break from time to time. Throughout the internship, I kept playing tennis outside of work to balance the pressure.
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