Thank you to everyone who showed up to our Project Interest Meeting on Tuesday! We’re so excited to collaborate with all of you this semester.

We’re looking for new board members!

If you’re interested in supporting the growth of SUDS, come out to our Leadership Interest Mixer on March 1st! We’re looking for leaders in multiple positions. Come out to the mixer to chat with current board members. If you’re interested in any leadership position, please email us at suds-cmu@andrew.cmu.edu.

Spring into two new projects! 

For everyone interested in getting involved with SUDS, fill out this form to sign up:

1. Analyzing environmental health impact data, with the Environmental Health Project
   • Building a data analysis pipeline to run reproducible analyses joining environmental data (air pollution, soil quality, etc) and health data for Southwest PA.
   • Skills preferred: Python, R, Javascript, SQL (or related skills)
   • Looking for a team lead!

1.  Analyzing ‘digital redlining’ in Pittsburgh, with the Department of Innovation and Performance
   • Designing and developing a platform to help citizens and Pittsburgh government assess the extent of unfairly reduced internet speeds around the city.
   • Skills preferred: Javascript, web development, Python, GIS (or related skills)
   • Looking for a team lead!

Sign up for our mailing list for updates, job listings, and other great events!

Lastly, check out these other civic data events going on in and around Pittsburgh, and sign up for the WPRDC mailing list to stay up-to-date on these and other events:

• February 7: Advanced Excel, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
• February 7: Fish Fry Map Update-A-Thon, Code for Pittsburgh
• February 8: A New City O/S/ with Neil Kleiman, Metro 21 Carnegie Mellon
• February 9: Introduction to Tableau, University of Pittsburgh Library
• February 12: Kathleen Stewart, Pitt Public Health Dynamics Lab
• February 14: Love your Data Event – Featuring Speed Data-ing and Data Valentines (save the date – 3 pm), Pitt Library
• February 15: Data 101: Introduction to Mapping, Regional Data Center & Pitt Health Sciences Library System
• February 21: On-Ramp to Python 6-Week Series Begins, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
• March 3: THATCamp Pittsburgh 2018 – Theme: Mapping and GIS
• March 21: Shankar Vedantam, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
• March 22: UCSUR Brown Bag with Ty Redden, Pitt UCSUR