{"id":3969,"date":"2023-07-19T15:20:19","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2023-07-19T15:20:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T15:20:19","slug":"new-data-visualisation-intern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/datablog\/2023\/07\/19\/new-data-visualisation-intern\/","title":{"rendered":"New Data Visualisation Intern"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s often said that the best way to achieve your goals is to visualise success. But what if visualisation is <\/em>your goal? Then get someone clever to do it for you. That\u2019s what we did: hired a new Data Visualisation Intern.<\/p>\n

\"Henry<\/p>\n

Henry Sun has joined Research Data Support for the summer to work on our Data Dashboard project. Henry is about to start his 4th<\/sup> year as an undergraduate, studying electronics and computer science. That\u2019s right, he\u2019s doing 2 degrees: our very own Henry Beauclerc. Henry also came to us with previous experience of laboratory research. Impressed? Us too, very.<\/p>\n

Just how Henry manages to find time for anything else is a little baffling. But find it he does and with it, among other things, he watches superhero movies \u2013 Marvel for preference, obviously. And he cooks: Henry tells us that he already has special skills in Asian, especially Chinese cuisine, and now he\u2019s learning how to bake. You can imagine how popular he\u2019s going to be when his colleagues find out.<\/p>\n

This internship is Henry\u2019s first time in a professional services role and that role is to develop a dashboard that will enable us to monitor and to understand all the Open Research activity that goes on at the University of Edinburgh. Primarily, that means tracking down a range of internal and external data sources and figuring out a way to tie them all together and visualise them. And if that\u2019s not enough, we\u2019re hoping that Henry will be able to predict the future, or at least come up with some ideas for ongoing development of the dashboard. Exciting stuff, right? Right.<\/p>\n

And what do we plan to do with this shiny new box of numbers? Management teams will want have a look, of course. We in Research Data Support are expecting to get a clearer and more detailed picture of the data management situation across the University: good practice, bad practice, and no practice at all. Knowing all that, especially the last two, will enable us to focus on the areas where we\u2019re needed most. It will also be useful for our three Colleges \u2013 Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, Science & Engineering, and Medicine & Veterinary Medicine \u2013 to see what kind of Open Research their researchers are producing. And speaking of Open<\/em> Research, we\u2019re aiming to make at least some of this data \u2013 headline numbers, etc. \u2013 available to the public via our website. It will be nice to show off all the hard work that\u2019s going on in Open Research at Edinburgh<\/a> as well as all the hard work Henry is doing for us.<\/p>\n

Simon Smith
\nResearch Data Support Officer
\nLibrary & University Collections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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