Anja Heine is an employee in a governmental statistics department and a part-time student at FernUniversität in Hagen, where she is pursuing a master’s degree in Political Science. She enjoys working with all kinds of data day to day and is very thankful to be provided with the opportunity to join GESIS Summerschool course Data Science Techniques for Survey Researchers funded by BERD@NFDI. She is happy to apply this course’s takeaways to a small-scale research project for her master thesis.