Data Scientist jobs in Lakewood, NJ

Job Title: Data Scientist

Location: Piscataway NJ

Duration: long term Contract

Remote until Covid.

No of Positions: 3

Job Description

• Should have 2-5 years of strong experience in analytics and data science.
• Expert in at least one programming language for data analysis (R required; Python is a plus).
• Demonstrated ability to develop R packages.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
• Experience with reporting and visualization solutions such as R Shiny, Tableau, or D3.
• Familiarity with reproducible research best practices.
• Ability to explain technical concepts and analyses clearly to a wide audience.

Responsibilities:

• Apply advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to translate the needs of the newsroom into reliable, valid models in order to
• Identify moments or subgroups of interest.
• Classify users or content.
• Highlight patterns, anomalies, relationships, and trends.
• Support long-term solutions and inform decision making.
• Wrangle constantly changing, large, complex, high volume, high dimensional, sparse data.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure that developed solutions are practical and meet their needs in a timely fashion.
• Be a key resource for other data scientists through providing guidance on statistical methods and research design.
• Clearly communicate technical work to colleagues from across the Los Angeles Times, including non-technical colleagues.
• Qualifications
• Advanced degree (PhD preferred) in a quantitative or computing focused degree.