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Data Scientist at Information Resources, Inc.

Posted in Other 30+ days ago.

Type: Full Time
Location: Chicago, Illinois





Job Description:

The Company:

Founded in 1979 as Information Resources, Inc. (IRI), IRI is the world's leading innovative partner that helps clients transform insights into impact at every level of their organization. IRI enables consumer packaged goods, retail and healthcare companies to drive growth by better understanding their business, their consumers, and the market. We do this by combining decades of professional experience with rich data sources, predictive analytics capabilities and a revolutionary technology platform called Liquid Data. Currently privately held, IRI serves as a holding company for the equity interests of IRI shareholders.

As the originator and innovator of marketing insights, IRI is evolving into a global provider of predictive, on-demand business insights applications. If you are driven to solve real world problems, are a dynamic leader and enjoy cultivating lasting partnerships with top executives from Fortune 500 companies, we want to speak with you. Please visit our website at to view all of our opportunities.

The Group:

This position is part of Global Data Science within IRI's Operations division. Global Data Science is responsible for researching, developing, and maintaining the statistical algorithms/ methodologies that fuel IRI's core Advantage deliverables. This particular position is part of a team within U.S. Data Science whose principle focus is expanding IRI's eCommerce solution suite.

Reporting Relationship:

The Data Scientist will report to a Vice President as part of a team of individual contributors.

Responsibilities:

- Develop processes to extract data across a multitude of platforms.

- Use Hive, R, SQL, Python to write, validate and maintain code to support research and data analyses.

- Define and lead customized research projects to develop and enhance IRI methodologies and algorithms

- Maintain codebase for newly developed systems.

- Document processes and procedures

- Independently investigate and resolve production and client data issues

- Provide accurate and timely data analysis and methodology support focused on internal and external client requests

- Present research findings to internal clients.

Requirements:

- MS. in Data Science, Applied Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science or a related field

- Extensive knowledge of Hive, R, SQL and Python.

- Excellent written and oral communication skills.

- Positive, team player with the ability to problem-solve independently.

- Basic knowledge of Unix shell scripting.

- Well-rounded statistical knowledge including:

- Sampling/Re-Sampling Methodology

- Statistical Modeling and Forecasting

- Data Mining

- Data Integration and Data Fusion

- Knowledge of reporting and visualization through R's shiny package

- Experience with supervised and unsupervised machine-learning techniques including bagging, K-means clustering, random forests.

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IRI offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package including relocation benefits, tuition reimbursement, immediate medical/dental/ vision coverage, 401(k) plan, flexible work arrangements, casual work environment, and excellent opportunities for growth.

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IRI is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here: DOL Poster. IRI is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to Talent.Acquisition@iriworldwide.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.


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