Last week on May 6th, I completed my first week of being a work-ready consultant. Being work-ready means being ready for work while learning and expanding my skillset. I started off my first week by starting a group project along the similar lines of thought as my last two projects (see Affordable Books for School and Universities and Income Areas).
Group Project
Together with Stephen Chang, I created a presentation and visualizations about the blacktip reef sharks, lemon sharks, and nurse sharks.
I'd suddenly had the thought sometime after completing my capstone, that it would be cool to try to make another project and do some sort of analysis with marine biology data, specifically sharks because I had some basic understanding of shark behavior from volunteering at the National Aquarium in Baltimore in high school. Shark data proved difficult to find and Stephen and me changed our problem question a couple of times, but we eventually found a pretty good dataset and were able to create a presentable and coherent presentation.
SQL Mock Interview
The next thing I accomplished was reviewing some SQL terms and definitions. We had a SQL interview preparation activity with the work-ready cohort and some internal managers from Talent Path, practicing responses with different interview "personas" and handling technical questions we may not have dealt with before. Our instructor, Celia, had shared a comprehensive informative article about common SQL questions with varying levels of difficulty that I transcribed into a Quizlet as part of my study routine. Making flashcards and being able to flip through the terms easily and quickly helped me remember the definitions quickly and I felt I was able to answer most of the SQL questions.
MongoDB
On Thursday, the work-ready consultants sat through a quick workshop on MongoDB, a powerful and versatile database platform. We installed MongoDB Compass as the GUI, and did some practice creating and dropping collections using the command-line prompt. I'd never used MongoDB before, but I was familiar with the idea and usage of MongoDB from some workshops I'd sat through in college. This was good experience for me to learn another SQL-like language and database platform besides PGAdmin and MySQL Workbench. I'd need more practice working with MongoDB before I can confidently say "I can use it" in a fast-paced work setting, but when it comes to learning syntax and coding I think I can say I can do the basics for MongoDB and any SQL database.
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