The Data 2 Knowledge (D2K) research group has two undergraduate summer research placements in data mining and analytics within the Publications Metadata Augmentation (PMA) project.
The PMA project aims to create a generalised datamining tool to extract publication metadata related to individual UK cohort studies. It will create a dataset of enhanced publications metadata that can then be analysed for a range of purposes including social studies of health sciences and measuring the impact of cohort studies.
Successful students will conduct a range of duties to assist on the PMA project, tailoring to candidate strengths and research interests. This is likely to include:
data discovery, data entry and data cleaning
developing analytics and visualisations (including real-time) e.g. network analysis, temporal trends, mapping
web interface for data discovery e.g. to search the publications metadata and view the analytics.
Experience writing in a range of languages e.g. python, javascript
Knowledge of data structures used in bibliographic settings e.g. json, bibtex
Linux experience would be an advantage
Placements will be situated in School of Social and Community Medicine at Oakfield House for 6-10 weeks between June and September 2016. Flexibility can be taken into account with term start/end dates. Students will be paid on a monthly basis at a rate of £275 a week, working standard research hours.
