Optimal is a policy research and data analytics firm that conducts studies and provides technical assistance on entrepreneurship and innovation, education, workforce development, economic development, health care, and related subjects.
Our mission is to provide decision makers with rigorous and timely insights that enable our clients to improve public well-being.
The Data Scientist intern position would require part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer. Compensation is commensurate with years of education, training, and pertinent experience.
General Description
- Support data scientists, researchers and software developers on projects bridging the gap between research and analytics.
- Assist in the development of streamlined protocols to systematize workflow.
- Aid to develop schema, business rules and configuration testing processes.
- Support efforts with systems management to capture information that can be used for quantitative analysis.
- Support the development of standardized protocols to manipulate information captured in a fixed format to usable data, using non-traditional data sources like scraping data from social media, mining data from natural language texts, as well as vectorizing images to create analytical dataset to inform policy decisions.
Work experience and job skills requirements :
- Knowledge using data science toolkits, such as R, MatLab, Python, and neural network frameworks such as Torch, Keras, Café, and Tensorfow.
- Knowledge using data visualization tools, such as D3.js, GGplot, PlotLy, Moicrosoft Power BI, and Tableau.
- Requirements gathering experience in developing schema, business rules, and test protocols.
- Knowledge conducting tests for configuring and developing integrated data systems.
- Experience working with query languages such as SQL.
- Knowledge of statistics and research methods and experience developing regression models.
- Experience developing technical documentation for datasets, code, and data products.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Education Requirements : Enrolled in a bachelor’s or Master’s degree program in Data Science, Business Analytics, Economics, Applied Mathematics, Applied Statistics, Operations Research, or a related field.
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