The GPP Minor, housed in the Blum Center, provides students with an opportunity to study issues of poverty and inequality, along with debates about varying approaches to address these issues. Connected with their courses, students are required to volunteer or intern with an organization for at least six weeks on a poverty alleviation-focused project related to their skills and interests. Several years ago, a student working for the Blum Center created an online database to support GPP students in identifying these organizations. The database includes local and international organization information and reviews of past students’ experiences working with each organization. Students access this through their Calnet ID login. Staff have access to approving organizations and student reviews. Our existing database was set up in a way that is difficult to maintain and lacks many features that could be useful for students to easily navigate. We are seeking a group of students who can redesign the database and set it up in a way that can be easily maintained long-term. Ideally, we would like the team to add search functionality to allow students to more easily connect with organizations that match their skills and interests.
Overall, in this project, you will be able to apply your data science skills in back-end development for the GPP Organizations database. Our program has a dataset of over 150 organizations that students can partner with, but designing a database that is accessible for students and their applications is our main issue for this project. Additionally, with Data Science increasingly becoming a core aspect of web design, you will be collecting and analyzing user data such as web traffic to give recommendations to optimize the structure of the website - there is also potential for UX design for those interested.
Languages preferred:
Python
SQL
Springboot
Java
