{"id":2169,"date":"2017-07-23T09:33:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T09:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2017-08-07T11:04:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T11:04:14","slug":"am-i-in-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/charityinsights\/2017\/07\/23\/am-i-in-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Am I in Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My first impression when waking into Nesta\u2019s main office was: \u201cAm I in Google?\u201d From the colourful shapes and designs spread across the walls to the couches by the window overlooking the OXO Tower, it felt like I had stepped into the hippest Silicon Valley start up by a recent Stanford graduate in the world. And this feeling was only reaffirmed throughout the week.<\/p>\n

Nesta\u2019s work, put simply, is innovation. They aim to take ground breaking ideas and make them a reality, covering pretty much all topics imaginable, like healthcare, democracy and policy-making. My personal focus for the next 4 weeks will be a mixture of investigating personal data economy and digital democracy, which is the coolest project I\u2019ve ever done.<\/p>\n

Of course, I started by just reading through a mountain of documents trying to wrap my head around some of the complex data science concepts that were going to be my bread and butter for the next month (disclaimer: I still don\u2019t fully understand them). I was even able to attend interviews so I could hear from the experts themselves, which was incredibly revealing. Never have I learnt so much about a topic in so little time (if you don\u2019t count exams week).<\/p>\n

Peppered throughout my week were coffee breaks with various employees. Although some did invite me to a hot chocolate and therefore I might be biased, I can say they were some of the nicest people I\u2019ve ever met. They took time from their busy schedules to tell me about their research topics and I can honestly say after hearing them talk, I would like to do an internship with every single one of them.<\/p>\n

I hope- no, I know, that in the weeks to come I will get to meet some more amazing people and learn even more about the world of politics and data science, and of course some more hot chocolate would be nice.<\/p>\n

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Highlight of the week: Watching a Wimbledon match whilst having strawberries and cream during our lunch break on the 6th<\/sup> floor terrace overlooking the River Thames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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