Data Engineering Intern

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Description

• Intern Testimonials • "My internship experience at Ballotpedia was nothing short of exceptional..." • "Ballotpedia is an excellent place to work..." • "Working as a tech intern at Ballotpedia is one of the highlights of my year..." • As a Ballotpedia Data Engineering Intern, you will work with the Tech team to develop automated ETL workflows to process data used for local election coverage. • This will involve: • Creating and modifying Python scripts • Working with spreadsheets and databases • Scraping candidate data from official sources • Developing processes to convert data into a standard format • Running processes to ingest data into a database • Testing, QA, and manual review • Conducting online research and some manual data entry • You will learn about elections administration, web scraping, and working with data, while surrounded by a small, enthusiastic, and open-minded team. • Aspiring data scientists, researchers with a programming bent, or back-end software engineers might find this particularly interesting. • Ballotpedia’s spring 2025 internship runs from Monday, January 13, 2025 through Friday, May 2, 2025. • Interns will work approximately 10-20 hours per week depending on their availability. • Ballotpedia is happy to facilitate credit for your internship experience if that is available to you. • Ballotpedia interns will work remotely, as all Ballotpedia staff work remotely. • To join Ballotpedia, you must have a well-functioning computer with Internet access. • Ballotpedia uses Google Applications (Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive and more) to accomplish our goals. • Some familiarity with Google Applications is helpful.

Requirements

• Some Python and SQL experience is required. • Familiarity with Google Colab or Jupyter Notebooks, Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, Google Sheets or Excel is preferred, though not required.