Data Analyst

JOB SUMMARY

Black Book’s Data Science team works to solve our customer’s most pressing challenges by enabling them to harness the power of data for insightful decisions.

The position represents an exciting opportunity to be part of a high growth team, driving innovation, and assisting in developing next generation data solutions in the automotive industry.

In this hands-on position, the Data Analyst will work very closely with the automotive analytics team to maintain, enhance, and develop analytic solutions which are focused on specific auto industry questions for Black Book customers.

The candidate must be passionate about data and finding insights from it.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Main tasks and responsibilities :

• Work closely with the automotive analytics team to ensure understanding of automotive data
• Maintain and enhance existing vehicle valuation models and systems
• Design and build new price forecasting models
• Develop automated quality control procedures to assess quality of data and provides reports to data owners

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent degree in applied statistics, mathematics, data science or related area of study
• Experience using Python for machine learning and large-scale data analysis
• Hands on use of machine learning methodologies such as regression, decision trees, time series analysis, NLP
• Knowledge of SQL and relational databases
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

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ABOUT Black Book

Black Book is a leading provider of automotive vehicle pricing and analytical services that are delivered to industry-qualified users through mobile, online and Data as a Service applications.

Since 1955 Black Book has continuously evolved to ensure that it achieves its goal of delivering mission-critical information to its customers, along with the insight necessary to successfully buy, sell, and lend.

Black Book data is published daily by National Auto Research, a Hearst company, and maintains offices in Georgia as well as Toronto, where Canadian Black Book is based.

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ABOUT HEARST

• Hearst is a leading global, diversified media, information and services company with more than 360 businesses. Its major interests include ownership in cable television networks such as A&E, HISTORY, Lifetime and ESPN;
• global financial services leader Fitch Group; Hearst Health, a group of medical information and services businesses; transportation assets including CAMP Systems International, a major provider of software-as-a-service solutions for managing maintenance of jets and helicopters;
• 33 television stations such as WCVB-TV in Boston and KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, which reach a combined 19% of . viewers;
• newspapers such as the Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle and Times Union (Albany, New York); more than 300 magazines around the world, including Cosmopolitan, ELLE, Men's Health and Car and Driver, and digital services businesses such as iCrossing and KUBRA;

and investments in emerging digital entertainment companies such as Complex Networks. For more information, visit .