--- title: "Of Datamonsters and Outliers" description: "Read about the experience of one of our summer engineering interns, Tania Yu." canonical: "https://amplitude.com/en-us/blog/of-datamonsters-and-outliers" --- # Of Datamonsters and Outliers Read about the experience of one of our summer engineering interns, Tania Yu. Source: https://amplitude.com/en-us/blog/of-datamonsters-and-outliers --- [Tania Yu](/blog/author/tania-yu) [Former Software Engineering Intern, Amplitude](/blog/author/tania-yu) [](https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Famplitude.com%2Fblog%2F%2Fblog%2Fof-datamonsters-and-outliers)[](https://www.linkedin.com/sharing/share-offsite/?url=https%3A%2F%2Famplitude.com%2Fblog%2F%2Fblog%2Fof-datamonsters-and-outliers)[](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Famplitude.com%2Fblog%2F%2Fblog%2Fof-datamonsters-and-outliers\&text=Of%20Datamonsters%20and%20outliers)[](mailto:?subject=Checkout%20this%20Amplitude%20Article\&body=Check%20this%20out%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Famplitude.com%2Fblog%2F%2Fblog%2Fof-datamonsters-and-outliers) \_This post is by Tania Yu, one of Amplitude’s amazing summer interns. Check out the [full post on our engineering blog](https://amplitude.engineering/outliers-and-datamonsters-e3b564f8290a) to learn about her project detecting outliers and her summer at Amplitude. \_ I’ve always loved cute things: kittens, Miyazaki films…you name it. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I interned at Amplitude this summer, a company with one of the cutest logos I’ve ever seen. My first week at Amplitude was, admittedly, a bit of a blur. Within the first couple of days at work, at least 50 of my new coworkers must have approached me with a smile and a “Welcome to Amplitude!” Although my complete inability to match names to faces left me mostly confused, the cheerful chaos allayed any worries I might have held on that front. Between learning about the product and company, starting to implement my first feature, and attending a product event hosted by Amplitude (on my first day, no less), I came to an easy conclusion: people here move *fast*. ### \*\*[Read all about Tania’s summer project at the Engineering Blog >>\*\*](https://amplitude.engineering/outliers-and-datamonsters-e3b564f8290a) About the author Tania Yu Former Software Engineering Intern, Amplitude [More from Tania](/blog/author/tania-yu) Tania is a former Summer 2017 software engineering intern at Amplitude. She majored in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. 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