Last week, interns from a variety of JMP departments shared their summer experiences and capstone projects. You can watch the recording or get a snapshot of their accomplishments below.
“I enjoyed learning about your projects and gaining insight into teams that the JMP development group doesn’t hear from as often,” Development Testing Manager and intern ambassador Audrey Shull said to the students. It provides “a glimpse of some of the initiatives going on in those teams as well.”
Kevin O’Donnell – Customer Success Stories
Team: Customer Reference
School: Villanova University
Areas of study: Statistics major, business minor
Interests: Sports and personal analytics projects
Stay in touch: linkedin/in/kevin-odonnell1
Kevin O’Donnell focused on writing, editing and publishing customer success stories this summer with Meg Eberle. He worked on six stories, including a data for good piece featuring 25:2 Solutions, an agricultural startup that has developed a drought resistant oat to address food insecurity in Morocco. Kevin helped with social media projects and sales email templates too.
A highlight for Kevin? Collaborating with Anne Milley and Baltimore Orioles VP and GM Sig Mejdal on a paper about the development of analytics in baseball. “[Sig] reinforced the point that, when you’re doing analytics, you need to know what you’re doing and why you’re getting a certain result,” said Kevin. “The big picture should be driving your decisions. I think that’s one of my biggest takeaways from this internship that I’ll carry with me throughout my personal and professional life.”
Katherine Li – JMP Live and JMP Licensing
Team: JMP Live
School: University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Areas of study: Computer science major, information systems and statistics minors
Interests: Volleyball, front-end and full-stack development, UX
Stay in touch: linkedin.com/in/katherineeli
In her second summer as a JMP technical intern, Katherine Li was ready to jump right into problem-solving mode for the JMP Live team. She demoed her work developing communications between the JMP Live server and the client side to handle errors, specifically with license expirations. She also designed license expiration notifications and displays for JMP Live. This helps restrict the customer from viewing or manipulating their reports if their license has expired, which will hopefully encourage them to renew and regain access to full functionality. Katherine also contributed to JMP quality improvements by integrating a fix to 16.1.
Sara Earl – Axis Tests Using With Window Handler()
Team: Software Testing
School: Rochester Institute of Technology
Area of study: Game design and development major
Interests: Software development, web design, 3D modeling, pixel art, sewing
Stay in touch: linkedin.com/in/sara-earl-85176b192
Sara Earl contributed to a variety of coding projects and said she is appreciative of the opportunity to work with “a large pre-existing code base, which is an experience that is really hard to recreate in academia.” She also found value in diving into projects and learning to trust that she’d be able to figure out a solution, asking for help when needed.
Sara reviewed and fixed some of the sample scripts, made a GUI for installer testing, transferred information from the media wiki to Confluence and updated the Perforce dashboard. But her main project involved With Window Handler(), a new method in JMP 17 that allows users to script things they previously could not.
Taylor Ferguson – Insight Into the JMP User Experience
Team: Customer Care
School: University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Areas of study: Data science and business analytics graduate student
Interests: Ethical AI, biotech, bioinformatics, graphic design, ceramics, documentaries
Stay in touch: linkedin.com/in/taylor-ferg
Taylor Ferguson created and released a survey to identify areas of improvement for JMP. The survey went to 52,000 JMP users around the world, and it will be translated and released again to increase participation among users in Asian markets.
In her demo, Taylor showed the results of a cluster analysis, which revealed three main groups of people:
- Highly Satisfied – users with the most JMP experience, frequent use, who are very loyal
- Middling Users
- Least Satisfied – users with less JMP experience, infrequent use, and who are open to using other software for analysis
Taylor used Text Explorer to identify themes and conducted logistic regression to categorize people into groups. She found many statistically significant variables, including frequency of use, years of experience and participation in Salesforce campaigns. She noted that people are limited on time but want to learn more about JMP. Making JMP easier to use “is an approachable problem to fix,” said Taylor.
Hannah Young – Attracting JMP Customers: User Experience, Sales and Marketing
Team: Academic
School: University of Virginia
Areas of study: Computer science and media studies major, social entrepreneurship minor
Interests: Holding technology accountable and making tech media more equitable
Stay in touch: linkedin.com/in/hannahyoung720
What was Hannah Young responsible for this summer? A total revision of the Learning Library, with the goal of making resources easier to find via search engine optimization. She also expanded usage and awareness at existing licensed sites by using LinkedIn to search for and build a list of 600 new professor leads in Europe. This is an important strategy in Europe due to GDPR rules. Additionally, Hannah conducted website evaluations, learned how to use Adobe Experience Manager to update web pages and added new cases to the case study library. Hannah made the most of the resources offered to interns – she is now SAS certified, enjoyed her exposure to JMP and participated in a SAS hackathon.
Hannah summarized her key takeaways from working at JMP:
Communicate.
Embrace flexibility.
Put your people first.
She explained what she learned from Global Academic Director Curt Hinrichs: “Good leadership is not about the outcome, but how you get there.”
Vignesh Sabesan – JMP Analytics Testing
Machine learning intern Vignesh Sabesan presented on JMP analytics testing at the SAS Intern Expo, an opportunity for many of SAS' 140+ interns to give a small-group demo and presentation three times, followed by discussion and questions. Vignesh is enthusiastic about data insights and predictive modeling using machine learning.
Stay in touch: linkedin.com/in/vigneshsabesan
Out of curiosity, how many of you got to JMP through a SAS internship? And who among us was exposed to JMP as a student? Let us know in the comments.
