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Summer Project Management Intern

For the Spring and Summer of 2018, The Data Library is recruiting a part time intern to support the Summer projects. This position will involve a range of activities that includes community engagement, outreach and project management. Project Management. Work with project teams to recruit participants,  track progress and set up meetings. Outreach. Identify and … Read more

Summer 2018 Projects and Internships

For Spring and Summer 2018, the Data Library will be hosting summer analysts and data scientists to work on special projects. Special Social Analysis Projects Pursue special projects in social analysis with large, individual-level  datasets like IPUMS, GSS and NLSY. Social Science students, or any student interested in applying data science and statistical techniques to … Read more

San Diego Data Knowledge Base

We’re working on building a new knowledge base, a collection of example Jupyter notebooks related to projects the Library has been working on.  The notebooks include detailed analyses using Jupyter, Python, Pandas and other tools, with most of the notebooks covering  crime and demographics. For instance, the Demographics and Business Loans notebooks shows how to fetch … Read more

Explore Society with Social Data

Tonight we’ll be meeting to talk about two important collections of survey data, The General Social Survey (GSS) and a broad collection of integrated survey datasets, IPUMS.org. Additionally, we’ll be meeting with David Lynn, founder of Mission Driven Finance, to talk about his volunteer data project to analyze business lending to minorities in San Diego county. In … Read more

Pro Bono Data Analysis This Summer

For Summer of 2017, The San Diego Regional Data Library will be running a data internship program, working on pro-bono data analysis projects for nonprofits, governments and journalists in San Diego County. If your organization has questions that can be answered with data, you can have an undergraduate data analyst work on your project, with … Read more