Onboarding Curriculum - Christian Suyat

[tiffanychu90]

Name: Christian Suyat
Role: RDA II
Reports to: Hunter

Week 1 Introduction to Caltrans, Cal-ITP, and Division of Data & Digital Services

• Non-technical 1:1 chats scheduled with each analyst
• Peer-guided intro to transit data (@edasmalchi)
• Peer-guided intro to transportation grants (@KatrinaMKaiser)
• Grant permissions for all tools, tracked in New Team Member - Christian Suyat data-infra#2840

Weeks 1-2 Technical Onboarding

• Technical onboarding session demo-ing GitHub, JupyterHub, Google products. Includes working through an example push/pull/commit workflow with your Personal README (@amandaha8)
• Submits completed personal README

Weeks 2-3 Introduction to our data

• What is in / how to access our data warehouse (@tiffanychu90)
• What is in / how to access Airtable with Python (@natam1)
• What is in / how to access Metabase (@natam1)
• Work through Metabase tutorial module

Weeks 4-5 Python Bootcamp in starter_kit/

Dates: Sept 7-22, 2023

• Read through basic training curriculum
• Read through one snippet of sample code everyday
• exercise 1
• exercise 2
• exercise 3
• exercise 4
• exercise 5
• exercise 6
• exercise 7
• exercise 8
• exercise 9

Reading Code

• DLA data cleaning (Natalie): snippet one, snippet two
• Consolidated App data cleaning (Amanda): snippet one, snippet two
  PMP cleaning (Amanda)
• 5310 / 5311 grant programs (Natalie & Amanda): snippet one, snippet two, snippet three
• Facilities Services (Tiffany)
• RT cost estimates (Eric)
• aggregation with geography_utils: snippet one, snippet two
• altair charts
• make map with gdf.explore(): snippet one
• shared_utils examples