(ella/she/sie)

💻alicia.urquidi@protonmail.com

📞 +1 250 885 1311

📧1-121 South Turner St., Victoria, BC V8V 2J9

Current position

Research Associate at the World Data System - International Technology Office (WDS-ITO); Ocean Networks Canada at the University of Victoria.

Work experience on LinkedIn

Alicia Urquidi Díaz, PhD, MLIS - Research Associate - World Data System | LinkedIn

Academic work on ORCID

Alicia Urquidi Diaz (0000-0001-9766-3545)

"I admire [Alicia's] ability to find structure in chaos, see solutions where others see problems, and create perspective from within the most entangled of positions"

• A mechanical engineer

🔌Technical skills

<aside> 💡 Connect to & query data sources

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• Get data by crawling websites or querying an API with Python (cURL, wget..).
• Query a linked open data (RDF) endpoint with SPARQL.
• Use an OS (Linux/Ubuntu or Windows) without a GUI (but also with a GUI), and I can connect to a remote server.
• Use Jupyter Notebooks, (often for Python, almost always for R).

Personal sandbox on GitHub

aliciuki - Overview

<aside> 💡 Refine data & give it structure

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• Turn unstructured data (especially text files) into structured datasets with regex, Python, R, Pandoc, and other tricks and hacks.
• Use Python and OxygenXML to manipulate structured data as JSON(L), XML. - Design and build a relational database to contain structured datasets, using MySQL/MS SQL.