Data Scientist Job
Location: New York New York
Description: The New York Times is hiring Data Scientist Job right now, this career will be placed in New York. More details about this career opportunity kindly read the description below. You may be a great fit for our team if you are excited about working on high impact, real world problems using huge (sometimes slightly messy) data sets, including billions of transactions, to unlock valuable insights and pow! er new products.
Responsibilities:
- Frame and conduct complex analyses and experiments using tremendously large (e.g. 10^6 to 10^10 records), complex (not always well-structured, highly variable) data sets
- Answer product questions by using appropriate statistical techniques on available data
- Analyze and interpret the results of product experiments;
- Design and implement scripts, programs, databases, and other software components
- Draw conclusions and effectively communicate findings with both technical and non-technical team members
- Review relevant academic and industry research to identify useful algorithms, techniques, libraries, etc.
- Share your knowledge by communicating your findings through sensible presentation and accessible language and mentor staff on relevant procedures and techniques
- Work closely with a product engineering team to identify and answer important product questio! ns;
- Develop best practices for instrumentation and ex! perimentation and communicate those to product engineering teams.
- Bachelors Degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, or other quantitative discipline
- 3+ years experience in R, Python, Java, or other languages appropriate for large scale analysis of numerical and textual data
- 2+ years experience with data mining, machine learning, statistical modeling tools and underlying algorithms
- 2+ years experience with relational databases and SQL
- 2+ years experience working with extremely large data sets
- 2+ years experience with Hadoop or similar distributed computing and storage platforms
- Proficiency with Unix/Linux environments.
- Graduate degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, or other quantitative discipline
- Extremely strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- A s! trong passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data;
- Proven track record of solving challenging problems in both academia and industry
- Experience with real-time/online recommender systems
Company Information:
The New York Times Company, a leading global, multimedia news and information company with 2012 revenues of $2.0 billion, includes The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, The Boston Globe, NYTimes.com , BostonGlobe.com , Boston.com, and related properties. The Company’s core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news and information.
EEO Statement:
The New York Times Company is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, national origin, citizenship or any other protected cha! racteristic. The New York Times Company is committed to diversity in it! s most inclusive sense.
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If you were eligible to this career, please email us your resume, with salary requirements and a resume to The New York Times.
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This career starts available on: Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:31:30 GMT