Lab 2 Bio
Rearden Bentley
2025-01-26
Rearden Bentley
About Me
I am a third-year Business Analytics student, originally from the Philadelphia area. I am interested in data analysis, sports, rockets, music production, and motorcycles. I’m also on the UC Dodgeball Team. We’re traveling to Harrisonburg, Virginia, this weekend to compete in the BEAST tournament, so be sure to cheer us on. There’ll be livestreams on YouTube.
Academic Background
From 2022 to 2023, I was a Computer Science student at UC’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. I transferred to the Lindner College of Business as a Business Analytics student in 2024.
Professional Background
Okay, so, this is a little complicated. I was a co-op student at Copeland in early 2024, as both a Computer Science student and a Business Analytics student. Basically, what happened is that I submitted the paperwork to switch schools in November 2023, right before I was hired to Copeland. I was still a CS student for the remainder of the semester, and that’s how I was treated by the company. However, once the Spring 2024 semester began, I became a Business Analytics student. Since I got the co-op through CEAS’s program, I got co-op credit for CEAS, but since I was a Lindner student at the time, I got co-op credit for Lindner as well.
Anyway. At Copeland, I had two main jobs. The first one was help design the web application that would allow Copeland contractors to manage large networks of refrigeration systems at once. Think of a large store, warehouse, or some other huge building that requires many different climate control systems. With the app I helped design, people working on that building’s climate system would be able to control all of the individual units, either in groups or on their own. My other responsibility was to build reports on the quality of Copeland’s product data going all the way back to the 1970s. Contractors depend on accurate product data to make decisions about what parts to use and whether a unit can be replaced with another. The reports I built allowed engineers and managers to find inaccuracies and holes in the product data.
Experience with R
I took the Codecademy course on R back in 2024, since I thought I might need it for my job at Copeland. That never ended up happening, but I still understand many of R’s frameworks, and anything I don’t I can look up pretty easily.
Experience with other analytic frameworks
I took a class on Python when I was still a CS student, where we used libraries like NumPy and Matplotlib to analyze and display data.
Experience with programming
I started to teach myself how to program all the way back in 2014, when I was ten years old. I started with JavaScript, which was definitely a choice. I think I chose it because I thought the logo looked the best on Codecademy’s website. I also have experience with Python, C++, Java, R, and SQL.