EmployStats Research Associate, Susan Wirtanen, recently visited New York, NY to attend a course in Stata. Stata is a statistical software data analytics tool utilized by EmployStats analysts in almost all of our case work, especially wage and hour, and employment litigation. The tools Susan learned in attending this training include data management, data manipulation, and tools used for complex analyses. These skills will allow Susan to work quickly and efficiently through large data sets our clients may provide for analysis.
Susan Wirtanen was hired at EmployStats in June 2016 as an Intern after graduating from the University of Texas in Austin with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. Susan recently began working full-time as a Research Associate at the beginning of 2017. In addition to being a full-time employee, Susan coaches club volleyball here in Austin, and recently finished her first season of coaching.