📅 2023-10-21 — Session: Structured Roles and Economic Analysis for UBA Project
🕒 05:45–08:45
🏷️ Labels: Project Management, Economic Modeling, Recruitment, Data Science, Argentina
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal: The session aimed to define roles and team structures for the Indice de Pobreza UBA project, and to explore economic modeling and analysis techniques.
Key Activities:
- Outlined potential roles and profiles for recruitment, focusing on responsibilities and required skills.
- Proposed a lean team structure for the project, combining roles to optimize efficiency.
- Developed simplified volunteer roles in Spanish to attract younger individuals.
- Crafted a README section inviting diverse participation in the project.
- Created casual job role descriptions tailored for the Argentine context.
- Revised job descriptions for data science, GIS, and development roles.
- Conducted research on personal income and poverty in Argentina, linking to public policy.
- Analyzed sectoral sales time series, focusing on decomposition and economic fluctuations.
- Explored the impact of microshocks on sectoral sales through economic dynamics.
- Discussed matrix notation for covariance representation in economic modeling.
- Addressed real-world complexities in economic modeling, emphasizing firm dynamics.
Achievements:
- Completed framework for team roles and recruitment strategy.
- Developed insights into economic modeling and sectoral sales analysis.
Pending Tasks:
- Further refinement of recruitment materials and economic models for implementation.