Become a Data Wrangler

Do you like sifting through spreadsheets, using SQL and Python to automate and speed up data scraping and process, or generally have an interest in odd and/or missing data?

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

  • Strong analytical skills.
  • Ability to learn and utilize relational databases, data integration, and statistics.
  • Computer skills, including word processing and spreadsheet applications.
  • Ability to understand scientific literature, data analysis procedures and their limitations, and current needs of the community.

Examples of day-to-day tasks:

  • Data retrieval, querying, data analysis and visualizations
  • Data pipeline development, maintenance and improvement
  • Communicating with domain and technical experts
  • Data privacy and infrastructure setup and management
  • Summarizing domain specific research papers
  • Sharing and reviewing resources and code
  • Maintaining communication across multiple teams
  • Running workshops on data wrangling and related skills