The Civis Analytics virtual information session (described below) will 
be held in *Parrish 159*.  As indicated below, this will occur 
*tomorrow, Tuesday, February 28th* at *4:30pm*.  Please let us know if 
you have any questions.  Otherwise, our recent alum looks forward to 
seeing you there!

Cheers,

Zach
> Hello, all!
>
> Oscar Chen, who graduated from the CS department last year, reached 
> out to let me know about a *virtual**information session* being given 
> by the organization at which he now works.  Career Services is 
> organizing the event.  We don't have a room number yet, but the event 
> is to be held on *Tuesday, Feburary 28th* (two days from now!) at 
> *4:30pm*.  Please see below for more information about the work 
> they're doing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Zach
>
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>
> Civis Analytics is a data science and technology startup that was born 
> out of Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign to bring the same 
> predictive analytics capabilities to other organizations. While much 
> of our work remains in the realm of progressive politics, we also work 
> with clients such as the UN Refugee Agency, Airbnb, and the United 
> States Census, empowering them to make smarter decisions backed by 
> robust data science infrastructure and methodologies.
>
> Civis is currently hiring software engineering interns for the 
> upcoming summer and Swat alums *Oscar Chen ‘16* and *Bill Wanjohi 
> ‘05* will be holding a *virtual information session on 2/28 at 
> 4:30pm*. We’ll be talking through topics such as what it’s like to 
> work at a startup, our culture and hiring processes, the types of 
> projects and organizations Civis engages with, and some high-level 
> overviews of the technologies that we’ve developed to make our work 
> possible.
>
> Oscar studied computer science at Swarthmore and after graduating 
> started at Civis in September as a software engineer working on Civis’ 
> end-to-end data science platform.
> Bill graduated with a concentration in Electrical Engineering in 2005. 
> He was a founding engineer at Civis Analytics and works to create 
> secure, performant, and reliable computer systems.

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