diff --git a/profiles/learner-profiles.md b/profiles/learner-profiles.md index 434e335..1a229ba 100644 --- a/profiles/learner-profiles.md +++ b/profiles/learner-profiles.md @@ -1,5 +1,34 @@ --- -title: FIXME +title: Learner Profiles --- -This is a placeholder file. Please add content here. +## Saul R. Panel + +#### Profile + +Saul R. Panel is a 1st-year PhD student who wants to work on modeling the US +energy system. Until recently they were working at a nonprofit which paid for a +commercial energy data subscription. Now that they're in school, they have lost +access to that data. They want to build a web portal that shows people the +effects of different local policy decisions on their energy bills. + +They want to use public data to do this, but the constellation of different +open datasets in different formats is overwhelming and confusing compared to +the commercial dataset which provided a simple interface for getting the data +into an analysis-ready form. + +Some folks in their lab have done a lot of policy modeling in Python. Saul is +just starting out, but has learned the basics of Python from their coworkers in +the past few months. They're wondering how to connect the publicly available +data into the policy models from the lab so the web portal can access model +outputs. + + +#### Background knowledge and skills: + + Has energy domain knowledge and experience working with commercial models + Has used Python and Pandas to write some simple data-processing scripts + +#### Goals: + + Work with openly licensed data instead of commercially provided and licensed data