Semester 2 2017 Internships - Data61

Multiple paid ($19.9017/ hour), part-time Semester 2, 2017 internship opportunities exist for our students with strong communication and technical skills in Data 61.

About Data61

Data61 is a business unit of of CSIRO and Australia’s leading digital research network, working with partners across government and industry to solve challenges, find efficiencies and innovate. A lot of the work we do involves making more high-value government data accessible to businesses and the public, while preserving privacy.

Placement 1: Web Geospatial Systems (WGS) Team - Typical Meterological Year Project

 The Web Geospatial Systems (WGS) team at CSIRO’s Data61 have built the Australian Renewable Energy Mapping Infrastructure (AREMI) platform for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. The AREMI mapping platform is available at http://nationalmap.gov.au/renewables/.

 The AREMI platform federates geospatial datasets for the renewable energy industry from a large number of data custodians, including the Department of Environment and Energy, the Australian Energy Market Operator, Geoscience Australia, and many more.

**Update** - Placement 2 Withdrawn by Data61
Placement 2: Regulation as a Platform (RaaP)  Group - Natural Language Parsing of Logic from Legislation

Regulation as a Platform (RaaP) is an open platform of government legislation and regulation in the form of digital logic, or "computable regulation". This will provide a government maintained central reference of executable rules available through public APIs. App developers can then build upon these APIs to create "RegTech" applications such as compliance checkers, single-form permit applications or regulation analytics. The first step in generating regulation as logic is to apply natural language processing to legislation documents to extract logic rules, these rules are then reviewed, amended and eventually endored by domain experts.

For more information on the project please visit  https://digital-legislation.net/

Placement 3: User Experience (UX) Team - Open Data User Research Internship

The project will be based on identifying a core set of common open data use cases, and then finding, analysing and mapping real-world examples of those use cases. Existing Data61 projects will also be mapped against the discovered categories, from which gaps in our current knowledge can be identified and earmarked for further research.

We will then help the researcher to analyse, document and publish their findings, revealing characteristics of open data users and insights that will support designers, engineers and policy-makers working within the open data ecosystem.

Candidate requirements:

Applicants must:

1. Be in their penultimate or final year of study in a Computing Degree and possess a GPA of 5.5 or above.

2. Must have 6-12 units of space to complete the Internship for Academic Credit. 

3. Demonstrate the required technical skills and interest (as per the attached Position Desctiptions).

4. Be eligible to undertake work in Australia (international students welcome to apply!).

5. Demonstrate very good written and oral communication skills, be a fast learner, and self-motivated.

To apply: Submit your CV, your academic transcript and a short statement (no longer than 2 pages) to CECS Student Services, explaining which placement you’re interested in and why you would like to undertake that placement. Note that your statement must also address the candidate requirements above. Short-listed applicants may be contacted by Data61 for interview prior to final selection.

Applications Close 11:59pm Wednesday 26th July, 2017

 

 

Application closing date

26 July 2017
Applications open for this opportunity: 
7 Jul 2017

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