Posts tagged with “DataSquad Blog” (All posts)

Reconnecting with DataSquad Alumni

6 January 2026

Ryan Jiang ’27 shares a project that involved reaching out to alumni in order to update the DataSquad website and assess the DataSquad model.

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Automating Technology-Check Scheduling

6 October 2025

Technology helps classrooms at Carleton function. To ensure that technology is working, it needs to be checked on a regular basis. With the help of the DataSquad, a new, automated process was designed to optimally assign students to spaces on campus.

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Newbie Navigations of Data Visualization

4 November 2024

We rely on many forms of data visualization in our daily lives, often without even realizing it. From weather maps to public transportation guides – they play a critical role in visually communicating data, including these graphs on the long term impacts of late-career job loss.

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Transferring your Stuff Efficiently and Effectively: Is Rclone the Right Tool?

2 October 2024

Students accumulate all kinds of files on their Google Drives over the time they’re in school. How can graduating seniors efficiently and effectively transfer their data to another account, saving their valuable research, essays, or projects?

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Election News Analysis project

3 June 2024

The goal of the Election News Analysis project is to accumulate transcripts from various news sources, and then analyze trends and patterns of the topics discussed during presidential election periods and key events.

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DataSquad Student Positions Open

12 April 2024

DataSquad is a group of student workers in ITS that works on various different data-related projects. These include data gathering, cleaning, management, and visualization projects.

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DataSquad: A Deep Dive Into Data Cleaning

18 May 2023

Shaun Baron-Furayama (class of 2023) worked over a summer to “clean” student-collected presidential election data that spanned over two decades. Here’s a little about the process and a report of his experience.

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Using Python with the Google Analytics API

27 April 2023

Google Analytics is an application that helps you analyze web data. I adopted a Python script to download 100,000+ website records from Google API.

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Jimmy Zhong: how the DataSquad experience helped me during my internship

6 January 2023

Aya Klos ‘23 sat down with Biology/Computer Science double-major Jimmy Zhong ’23 to learn about his experience with the DataSquad and reflect on the skills he could apply during his internship and beyond.

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