Paid Python Programming Internship
New York // Part Time // Research
Overview
The Jain Family Institute is seeking an intern, in college or early graduate school,
to contribute to the development and launch of a prototype product for our
current projects on mass digitization and digital curation. The ideal candidate has
a wide-ranging curiosity, particular interest in topic modeling and relationship
mining, and substantial experience programming in Python. She or he will be
joining a small team of generalist-practitioners with backgrounds in philosophy,
physics, engineering, and data science working on mapping research ecologies as
represented in online articles and blogs.
The internship carries a stipend of $5,000 for approximately 15 hours per week
over six months. Those interested should send a CV or résumé with contact
information, a letter of interest, and an overview of previous programming
projects, to internapps@jainfamilyinstitute.org.
Selected candidates will be invited to an in-person interview in our Manhattan
office in late June.
The preferred due date is June 16th, after which we will accept applications on a
rolling basis.
Responsibilities • Time commitment: approximately 15 hours a week
• Attendance: one to two times weekly, at meetings in our Upper East Side
office
• Tasks:
o assisting with the development and implementation of scraping
and classification systems;
o experimenting with and implementing various approaches to
topic modeling, including LDA and distributional clustering;
o exploring graphical representations of topic clusters and citation
networks;
Required Skills and Qualifications • Familiarity with Python, including data science packages
• Excellent analytic or quantitative skills; strong communication
DATE: 8 June 2017
Helpful Skills and Qualifications • Knowledge of optimization techniques
• Facility with visualization packages
• Experience with text mining
Benefits • A stipend of $5,000, paid in monthly installments of $1,000
• The possibility of publishing new research under the auspices of Jain
Family Institute
• Opportunities to meet with scholars, policy experts, and leaders in
finance, business, education, and the arts
About JFI
The Jain Family Institute is a research incubator that builds promising ideas into
real-world pilots. Our work investigates and influences the structural forces that
affect the way people live, work, and learn. Our team collaborates with industry,
government, and academia to pilot scalable, high-impact interventions.
For details about our staff and current projects, see
http://www.jainfamilyinstitute.org/.
Applicants may also email internapps@jainfamilyins