Research Data Analyst
- Employer
- Princeton University
- Location
- New Jersey, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not specified
- Date posted
- May 27, 2023
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- Position Type
- Administrative, Academic Affairs, Research Administration
- Employment Level
- Post-Doc
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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Research Data Analyst
US-NJ-Princeton
Job ID: 2023-17087
Type: Full-Time
# of Openings: 1
Category: Research and Laboratory
Princeton University
Overview
Housed at Princeton University, Arab Barometer is a nonpartisan research network that provides insight into the social, political, and economic attitudes and values of citizens across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). We have been conducting high quality and reliable public opinion surveys since 2006, making us the longest-standing and the largest repository of publicly available data on the views of citizens in the region. The Research Data Analyst for the Arab Barometer reports to the Senior Research Specialist. The Data Analyst assists with the maintenance and development of scripts in, but not restricted to, ODK, R, and Stata related to collecting and processing Arab Barometer data. During the data collection phase, this includes programming the questionnaire, validating the programming, quality control checks on data, data cleaning, and management of Arab Barometer survey data. The position also assists in data analysis for research projects including modeling, diagnostics, and graphic visualization for reports, articles and other publications. Arab Barometer is a close-knit team and the Data Analyst will be working directly with the project director, research associates, and communication associates. Outside of the team, the Data Analyst must also work with Princeton graduate and undergraduate students, and research colleagues in the U.S. and the Middle East and North Africa. This is a remote, one-year term position with possibility of renewal.
Responsibilities
- Graph creation: This includes the creation of standard graphs, special request graphs, and developing functions that help create graphs for the Arab Barometer's custom R package.
- Data cleaning and management: This includes evaluating data validity with Arab Barometer software, identifying miscodings, and assist with labeling.
- Preparing surveys: This includes researching feasibility of survey software, quickly learn the basics of programming questionnaires, and create/test sample surveys.
- Research assistance: This includes reading research papers on survey methods, identifying the source of problems in code and suggesting solutions, developing and testing programs to help Arab Barometer run more efficiently.
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- Three years experience
- Comfortable with the programming language R, especially summarizing data and creating graphs
- Ability to clearly and succinctly communicate data results
- Ability to learn new skills quickly
- Ability to think creatively to solve problems
- Familiarity with STATA
- Familiarity with python
- Familiarity with LaTeX
- Familiarity with Arabic
- Knowledge of MENA countries and regional dynamics
- Familiarity with survey programming software, such as ODK, SurveyToGo, etc.
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