Fwd: Job posting: Data Scientist Contract for City of Cape Town

[Adi Eyal]

I never thought the day would come. See the job advert below:



City of Cape Town is looking for a Data Scientist for their Open Data Portal. This is a contract position for 6months.


Job Functions include:-

Help to source data from custodian departments.
Clean sourced data and prepare for public consumption.
Help develop quality checking procedures to be applied before any data set is published.
Tasks would include:

Assist in sourcing data,including engaging with custodian departments to extract data from their systems
Compile  relevant metadata for datasets
Prepare data for publication, including data cleaning
Check/quality assure datasets and fix any errors in accessing the datasets
Format of datasets into appropriate file types
Verification of data against different sources

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Adi Eyal

Director

Code for South Africa

Promoting informed decision-making

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