Research Assistantship
Measuring and visualizing metropolitan areas: understanding the space of urban America
The Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford seeks to hire an undergraduate research assistant to work on a project to evaluate, expand and visualize measurements of American metropolitan areas. The project extends over the summer quarter of 2015.
Date Posted: March 25, 2015
Start/End Dates: June 15, 2015 - August 21, 2015
Duration: 10 weeks (dates are negotiable)
Eligibility: Undergraduate student
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Project Description
Metropolitan areas provide useful models to describe the functional environment in which urban Americans live their every day life. The Office for Management and Budget defines metropolitan areas as having a large urban center and a certain proportion of commuters in the population. Having explored the robustness of commuting as a metric, we will now integrate other metrics such as public services (transit, water supply, etc.) and communication to deepen our understanding of metropolitan areas. This summer, we will test the effect of the distribution of public services and people’s behaviors on the definition of metro areas.
The project consists of two interconnected lines of research. The first is focused on the metric themselves, and their behavior over space and time in the metropolitan areas of the contiguous United States. The second is focused on visualizing these metrics, finding patterns, and comparing the trajectories of different metropolitan areas. Over time, we will expand the Metropolitan Atlas.
Qualifications
General qualifications that the candidate should possess:
- Intellectual curiosity about urban policies and metropolitan areas
- Ability to work independently
- Willingness to ask “silly” questions to figure something out
- Very strong analytical skills—ability to understand and process structured data
Technical qualifications:
-
Either for data collection and processing, or for data visualization, the candidate would either possess or be willing to learn technical skills:
- Data collection and computation with R and SQL
- Data visualization with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and d3.js
Compensation
The research assistant will meet with the project mentor weekly, and will join an exciting community of scholars including undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and faculty. The faculty mentor for this project is Professor Bruce Cain, and RAs will be supervised by Thomas Favre-Bulle. This position requires 40 hours per week during the Summer 2015 session, from June 15 through August 21, 2015 (dates negotiable). This position is compensated at $16/hour.
To Apply
Please send your resume, a cover letter explaining your qualifications and interests, and an unofficial transcript to Chau Ho (mchauho@stanford.edu). Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Contact Information
Minh Chau Ho, Program Associate
Email: mchauho@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 721-2569
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- Ability to work independently
- Willingness to ask “silly” questions to figure something out
- Very strong analytical skills—ability to understand and process structured data
Technical qualifications:
-
Either for data collection and processing, or for data visualization, the candidate would either possess or be willing to learn technical skills:
- Data collection and computation with R and SQL
- Data visualization with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and d3.js
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The project consists of two interconnected lines of research. The first is focused on the metric themselves, and their behavior over space and time in the metropolitan areas of the contiguous United States. The second is focused on visualizing these metrics, finding patterns, and comparing the trajectories of different metropolitan areas. Over time, we will expand the Metropolitan Atlas.
General qualifications that the candidate should possess:
- Intellectual curiosity about urban policies and metropolitan areas
- Ability to work independently
- Willingness to ask “silly” questions to figure something out
- Very strong analytical skills—ability to understand and process structured data
Technical qualifications:
-
Either for data collection and processing, or for data visualization, the candidate would either possess or be willing to learn technical skills:
- Data collection and computation with R and SQL
- Data visualization with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and d3.js
The research assistant will meet with the project mentor weekly, and will join an exciting community of scholars including undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, and faculty. The faculty mentor for this project is Professor Bruce Cain, and RAs will be supervised by Thomas Favre-Bulle. This position requires 40 hours per week during the Summer 2015 session, from June 15 through August 21, 2015 (dates negotiable). This position is compensated at $16/hour.
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The project consists of two interconnected lines of research. The first is focused on the metric themselves, and their behavior over space and time in the metropolitan areas of the contiguous United States. The second is focused on visualizing these metrics, finding patterns, and comparing the trajectories of different metropolitan areas. Over time, we will expand the Metropolitan Atlas.
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