An opportunity exists for an undergraduate to help implement visualization software for a project that is working on developing methods to facilitate discoveries in large quantities of texts. The research assistant will work closely with Gary King (David Florence Professor of Government) and a graduate student in the government department (Justin Grimmer) in developing software to accompany a soon-to-be-completed paper that proposes a new approach to cluster analysis. As a working version of the program exists in the R programming language, the research assistant's primary task will be to export the code and create an easy-to-use package for the program. Knolwedge of JAVA programming language is preferable but not required. Strong preference for a computer science concentrator. The work will start as soon as the candidate is available and could extend for some time as there are various extensions that are planned to be added. The research assistant would ideally work 10-15 per week, but there is flexibility available to match the undergraduate's schedule.
Please send a cover letter and resume to execdir@iq.harvard.edu if you are interested in this position.