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GU Institute of Earthquake Prediction
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
Wei Huang
Deputy Director
1
Project
Academic experience
120 hours of work total
Learner
Anywhere
Intermediate level

Project scope

Categories
Data visualization Data analysis
Skills
tableau (business intelligence software) data analysis
Details

We’d like students to help grasp the data online, create the database, and analyze our datasets to draw helpful insights.

  1. Earthquakes happen on the earth everyday. We need to create the database of all the quakes during the past 100 years.
  2. Monitor the main official earthquake websites and grape the latest records into our database on minutely basis.
  3. Data analysis.
  4. Visualization.
  5. These insights will be directly related to earthquake prediction.
Deliverables

Tasks

  1. Web crawling from public sources, by Python
  2. Create earthquake database,
  3. Data analysis by Python or Excel
  4. Data visualization by Excel, PowerBI or Tableau


Tools: Excel, Python, Power BI, Tableau

Mentorship

Working closely with the project contact who is available for any clarification on questions, as well as occasional project progress meetings.

Basic tutorial, related resources.

About the company

Company
Medford, Massachusetts, United States
11 - 50 employees
Science, Technology, Education
Representation
Public benefit corporation (pbc)

GU INSTITUTE OF EARTHQUAKE PREDICTION(GUIEP) is a non-profit organization focusing on earthquake prediction.
We are committed to overcoming the global problem of earthquake prediction in order to protect the safety of life and property. Earthquakes cause 35.8 billion USD in losses for the top 15 easy-shock countries per year. Earthquake prediction is one of the top ten scientific problems in the world. We can predict the strong earthquakes and strong aftershocks.