Student Data Analyst (R/Python, NLP) - Part-Time

BSS PS Inst. for Statskundskab; Denmark; Hybrid; DKK 165,000 - 248,000; Part time

Job summary

The STANDBY project at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, invites applications for a part-time student assistant to assist with data preprocessing, wrangling and exploratory analyses in R (and Python) on social data from Facebook experiments.

You’ll work 7 hours/week, start Oct 1, 2026, and may co-author manuscripts depending on contribution. Requires strong R skills, tidyverse, and basic NLP tasks familiarity; ideal for final Bachelor or early Master student.

Qualifications

• You should be structured and dependable and enjoy working with data.
• Strong knowledge of R with tidyr/dplyr and tidyverse for data wrangling, visualization, and reproducible code; familiarity with Quarto documents.
• Experience or familiarity with NLP tasks (sentiment analysis, topic modelling, classification using transformer models) in R or Python.

Responsibilities

• Perform data preprocessing and wrangling for datasets including JSON data.
• Carry out exploratory analyses in R (and Python when required).
• Support robustness analyses and contribute to manuscript materials.
• Prepare supplementary materials for manuscripts; co-authorship possible for substantial contributions.

Skills

R programming

Data wrangling

Quarto docs

Data visualization

Reproducible code

NLP tasks

Education

Bachelor or Master student

Tools

tidyverse

Quarto

Job description

The STANDBY project at the Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, invites applications for a part-time student assistant to assist with data preprocessing, wrangling and exploratory analyses in R (and Python) on social data from Facebook experiments.

You’ll work 7 hours/week, start Oct 1, 2026, and may co-author manuscripts depending on contribution. Requires strong R skills, tidyverse, and basic NLP tasks familiarity; ideal for final Bachelor or early Master student.