UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI: Trainee for FIN-CLARIAH venture

The College of Helsinki Worldwide trainee programme is open to all worldwide college students enrolled in a College of Helsinki grasp’s programme.

We at the moment are in search of a TRAINEE for FIN-CLARIAH venture.

The length of a traineeship is from 1 September to 31 December 2024 (4 months) of part-time (50%) work, leaving time for research as effectively. The wage of a trainee is €700 monthly for a part-time (50%) trainee.

In regards to the place

We develop instruments to assist different researchers to get knowledge. A significant problem presently is the shortage of maintained assortment instruments distinctive to the Finnish media surroundings to seek for and systematically seize knowledge for social science research. Duties for this traineeship embrace

• Writing code to scraping content material from Finnish on-line boards (no Finnish expertise required)
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• Wrangling the info right into a format appropriate with social science research
• Develping automated testing instruments for code to point when its is damaged

On this activity you should utilize both R or Python to develop scrapers, so good command of both language is required.

This place is positioned within the Helsinki Social Computing Group, an interdisciplinary research group centered on creating computational and digital strategies for social science and inspecting the impression of algorithms and digital methods to societal reside. As well as, the scholar will belong to the Centre for Social Knowledge Science on the School of Social Science.

The particular person we’re in search of

We look for a motivated junior particular person to take part on this improvement effort, a eager curiosity in social science research and want to develop it additional is a should. Equally, we hope anticipate expertise for working independently. We’re notably in search of candidates with  

• Primary stage data of Python and/or R (together with operations of libraries).
• Primary stage data of web site publishing applied sciences (HTML, Javascript).
•     Willingness to obtain suggestions by means of common code critiques.
•     Good command of English language (no have to grasp Finnish language)

In your software materials, please additionally clarify your expertise in Python or R, software development and web site publishing applied sciences.

Why work for us

We give you a global, multicultural, and revolutionary working surroundings with attention-grabbing assignments associated to research within the social sciences. We help your work with energetic steerage as a way to get essentially the most out of your traineeship and guarantee you have got good portfolio of software development expertise in your future place.

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You’re eligible to use in case you are a global scholar enrolled in a College of Helsinki grasp’s programme.

We anticipate to obtain your software by means of our recruitment system by 29 April.

Additional info

Additional details about the place will be obtained from college lecturer Matti Nelimarkka, matti.nelimarkka@helsinki.fi,  +358 (0)50 52 75 920. Ideally contact Dr Nelimarkka by way of electronic mail.

Additional details about the recruitment course of will be obtained from HR on-site providers: hr-socialsciences@helsinki.fi

Learn extra what the programme gives in your help on the programme web site.

The College of Helsinki welcomes candidates of any gender, linguistic and cultural background, or minority group.