American Physical Society

Week 7: Sometimes numbers speak louder than words

Friday, July 16, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

This week, I continued working on the Top Educators Lists. I completed writing the program that generates the spreadsheet with each institution’s 3-year averages based on the demographic/degree categories decided (yay!).

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Hannah Wistrand

Week 6: Energizing Myself Professionally Through Personal Connections

Sunday, July 11, 2021

Hannah Wistrand

I did it! My first professional presentation! I was pretty nervous, and got little to no sleep the night before, but I did it. I presented to my team of APS Public Engagement and Office of External Affairs members my suggestions on how to move forward with the misinformation campaign.

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Week 6: Progress!

Sunday, July 11, 2021

Kirk Kleinsasser

This week was a busy one! We are getting to crunch time, but I feel somewhat on track with my project. I’m very excited, as I have finished the backbone of code for my project.

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Week 6: Who’s playing in the Top Educators league?

Friday, July 9, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

This week, I started working on the Top Educators lists. In order to create the Top Educators lists for each demographic, I need to use the Überspreadsheet to create a separate sheet with all the institution’s 3-year averages for degrees awarded in physics.

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Hannah Wistrand

Week 5: Qualitative Analysis of People (Can Lead to Better Relationships)

Sunday, July 4, 2021

Hannah Wistrand

This week involved analyzing a lot of different people in a lot of different ways. Now I know that sounds a bit snobby or judgemental but hear me out.

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Week 5: More Bug Hunting!

Sunday, July 4, 2021

Kirk Kleinsasser

This week felt a little slower, as I ran into a fair number of bugs in my project. I managed to finish a major module in my code and make great headway into another! I can now import job data into my program and perform basic searches.

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Week 5: Life is full of surprises!

Friday, July 2, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

At the end of last week, I was quite worried about my process of modifying and debugging the code that adds the new year’s data into the Überspreadsheet.

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Hannah Wistrand

Week 4: Yes, And: Confirming My Path

Sunday, June 27, 2021

Hannah Wistrand

This past week has been pretty tricky. I’m getting into more analysis and engagement work, trying to understand the audience we are reaching with this project against science misinformation and vaccine hesitancy.

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Week 4: It’s taking a bit too long!

Sunday, June 27, 2021

Zeynep Tuna

This week, I spent most of time on Excel formatting data for the Compare Your Institution webpage on the APS website. In my opinion, this is an important aspect of the Education and Diversity Statistics project as most institutions and most people use this as a resource very often.

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Week 4: Squishing Bugs

Sunday, June 27, 2021

Kirk Kleinsasser

This was another super busy week for me! I only had a few meetings for my internship this week, but I wanted to really start moving on my code. On Monday, I had the chance to have lunch with the other interns and department heads in APS.

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