Using Cellphone Data to Measure Commuting Patterns in Lagos, Nigeria
Nick Tsivanidis, Professor
Business, Haas School
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As part of a larger project on the impacts of new bus and rail in Lagos, our team is looking for a research assistant to help manage, clean and analyze cellphone metadata being shared with us by a large telco in Nigeria. The work is a 3 way partnership between my research team, the telco, and Lagos State Government.
Role: The work will involve overseeing data pushes from the telco to our server, running diagnostics to ensure this is without issue, cleaning and analyzing the data.
The work may also involve presenting results and processes to Lagos state government staff, and conducting training sessions with them.
Qualifications: Ideal candidate will have experience working with large datasets. CS, data science, Econ majors would seem like good fits. Professional experience working data in large teams desirable but not essential.
Day-to-day supervisor for this project: Konhee Chang (there will still be direct supervision by Nick, just additional supervision and assistance from Konhee), Graduate Student
Hours: 9-11 hrs
Related website: nicktsivanidis.com
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