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Sample responsibilities for this position include:

Using machine learning and other data mining techniques to get insights from massive datasets, such as identifying fraud rings

Utilizing your experience with R (and any associated tech like Python) to write new algorithms (Bigrams, Trigrams, k-means clustering and STM Modelling) to process gigabytes of text data to produce new insights

Understanding what problems create consumer calls through data mining interaction records

Adapt the latest technologies in modeling and data mining to design scientific tests to maximize dollars spent on new initiatives and marketing channels

Work together with a team of dedicated experts including researchers, developers, dev-ops engineers, and architects with a single goal of building best machine learning pipelines for a variety of use cases spanning commerce, financial markets, and procurement

Work with internal stakeholders to explore and understand business data

Formulate and test hypotheses to evaluate business strategies and measure impact

Learn and apply complex analytical techniques

Skills for Data Scientist Intern Desired skills for data scientist intern include:

R

SQL

Experimental design

Machine learning

Response surface methodology

Statistical graphics

Stochastic processes

Python

Data mining

Statistics