Student Internship Seminar

12:00 - 12:45 PM, Wednesday, April 20, SLC120

Data Visualization Applied to Financial Consulting

Sadie Sedacca

This talk will provide an overview of an internship as a data science intern at Integrated Consulting Services. The tasks and visualizations created for clients will be included as well as a summary of the benefits of working as a consultant for a smaller firm. This presentation will give insight into the invaluable experience of working with business owners trying to navigate the lasting impacts of the COVID–19 pandemic.

       Shared Investments: Gold to Platinum

Aaron Turnblad



This presentation will be on a project that I was assigned through my internship with Fastenal. Fastenal’s Share Investment program, a membership Fastenal vendors can join to get exclusive benefits. The main question that marketing wanted to be answered was, does switching from the Gold tier to the Platinum tier increase the amount we spend with the vendor? This was approached using a paired t-test for vendors who stayed in the Shared Investment program who were gold in 2021 and upgraded to platinum in 2022.

Student Seminar

12:00 - 12:45 PM, Wednesday, April 13, SLC120

Parity for Non-Integer Numbers

Aaron Lewis

This talk summarizes an exploratory analysis of the concept of parity for non-integer numbers. Using a generalization of parity derived from integers' interaction with exponents of negative numbers, a rational extension is derived. Using sets generated by different branches of the complex logarithm, and the resulting geometric structures in the complex plane, a definition for parity over the rationals is determined. An attempt is made at extending the definition further into the reals and complex numbers, and while a definition is found for some complex numbers, issues with irrational numbers prevent a full extension into the real and complex numbers

       Analysis Programming Consultant and Forecasting Methods

Carly Vandenhouten



This talk will give an overview of a summer internship as an analysis programming consultant to the pharmaceutical research industry. The tasks and deliverables required of the analysis programming team involved in a large-scale clinical trial will be discussed. Another part of this presentation will involve a separate consulting position with the Winona YMCA looking at past membership trends and basic forecasting methods to predict the future membership of the Winona location.