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Geo-Taxonomy Service Development Summer Internship At The United Nations Office For The Coordination Of Humanitarian Affairs, Nyc, Henry Mros Iii May 2017

Geo-Taxonomy Service Development Summer Internship At The United Nations Office For The Coordination Of Humanitarian Affairs, Nyc, Henry Mros Iii

International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE)

This report provides a detailed account of my internship experience with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) in New York, New York during the summer, autumn, and winter of 2016. The internship was completed at Two United Nations Plaza and remotely from Clark University under the supervision of UN-OCHA Information Management Programme Officer, Andrej Verity. While temporarily serving as an international civil servant, I had the unique opportunity to contribute my knowledge and skills to an intergovernmental organization that continuously aims to improve the nations of our world. Adhering to the requirements set forth by …


Gis Internship At Umass Medical School Information Technology Department, Qiming Shi M.S. May 2017

Gis Internship At Umass Medical School Information Technology Department, Qiming Shi M.S.

International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE)

Abstract

GIS INTERNSHIP AT UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL IFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Qiming Shi

This paper summarizes my internship at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Information Technology Department in Worcester, MA, which lasted for 1 year. I worked on several projects correlating health and disease outcomes to spatial and temporal factors where I not only brought my technical skills in GIS but also turned my solution into a useful web application, using R Shiny.

It was a great learning and professional experience, and I learned a great deal about R programming and public health GIS.

I would highly recommend Internship at Umass …