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Internship&at&Slice&&
Juan&Wang&
April&28&2014&
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Outline&
• Slice&&• SoEware&&• Task&• Thoughts®arding&the&internship&&• Find&an&internship&
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About&Slice&
• A&startup.&Founded&in&2010&• An&independent,&whollyKowned&subsidiary&of&Rakuten&(The&top&10&largest&Internet&company)&
• The&largest&panel&of&online&shoppers&in&the&United&States&
• Providing&consumer&spending&insight&to&the&world’s&leading&retailers,&manufacturers&and&market&research&agencies&at&a&high&level&of&granularity&
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Slice&App&
• Slice&app&��the&smart&shopping&assistant&– Track&all&of&your&packages&automa,cally&
– Save&money&with&alerts&on&price&drops&
– Visualize&your&spending&– Shop&the&internet’s&biggest&sale&&
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Slice&App&Interface&
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Slice&App&Interface&
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SoEware&&
• SQL&&&�A&special�purpose&programming&language&designed&for&managing&data&held&in&a&rela,onal&database&management&system&
• Excel&• R&• Python&• Tableau&&
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SoEware�Tableau&
• Connect&to&data&in&a&few&clicks&• Visualize)data&and&create&interac.ve,&sharable&dashboards&with&a&few&more&clicks&
• &Easy&enough&to&learn&it&• Powerful&enough&to&sa,sfy&even&the&most&complex&analy,cal&problems&
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SoEwareKTableau&
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SoEwareKTableau&
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Task&
• Data&collec,on&– Go&to&online&to&find&some&useful&data&
• Use&some&sta,s,cal&techniques&to&detect&the&outliers&– Moving&average&algorithm&
– Time&series&predic,on&
• Taxonomy&
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Thoughts regarding the internship "
• Do¬&think&the&job&is&too&easy&for&you&at&first&• Learn&as&much&as&possible&to&make&yourself&qualify&for&the&job&
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Find&an&internship&
• For&me&&�Referred&by&my&friend&(classmate)&
– Build&a&network&with&your&classmates&
• Slice&h9ps://slice.resumetracker.com/public&
• Piazza&Careers&&��h9ps://recrui,ng.piazza.com/&&
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Thanks!&