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The Vera Institute of Justice is looking to use machine learning models to build more robust datasets for research to support a pilot project for a national initiative aimed at transforming the criminal legal and immigration systems.

Requirements

• Python and/or R
• GitHub
• Cloud Technologies such as Microsoft Azure
• SQL & relational databases
• Command Lin
• Proficiency developing code collaboratively using GitHub
• Experience working with messy administrative datasets in an academic or professional setting

Responsibilities

• Review police reports and other text data to label and create dataset structures
• Review semi-structured text data fields to condense into coded categorical variables
• Contribute code to existing automated data collection system as needed for the pilot’s evolving requirements
• Develop descriptive and other summary statistics in support of model development, validation, and evaluation
• Support senior data scientist in other analytical tasks as needed
• Setting up the data and infrastructure required to enable the use of ML and AI on messy administrative data
• Gain practical experience in working with realistic datasets to enable impactful analysis on the criminal legal system

Other

• Currently enrolled in a college program in data science, a computational social science, statistics, public policy, or a related discipline
• Commitment to using research and analysis to end mass incarceration and undo racism and inequity in the criminal legal system
• The intern should be available to work up to 15 hours per week during the summer.
• The dates will be between September 8, 2025, and December 19, 2025, with some flexibility to accommodate personal and academic schedules.
• This is an unpaid opportunity.