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Who We Are
Fractl is a creative marketing agency that fuses data journalism and information design to explore universal human interests in original and daring ways.
The Role
We’re looking for a Data Scientist who can reveal the most interesting and surprising findings in data he/she collects, cleans, models and tests. The ideal candidate will have an excellent grasp of basic statistics, including statistical tests, distributions, and maximum likelihood estimation. A solid understanding of statistical significance is vital, as is the ability to determine if methodologies are sound. Your contributions to Fractl projects will be crucial in ensuring stories are based on meaningful results that truly represent trends in the real world.
Your role in a project will typically begin by assessing potential data sources alongside a data journalist to find one (or several) that has the potential to reveal a compelling story that relates to the client’s products or services. You will then collect the data, scraping it if necessary, before analyzing it through Exploratory Data Analysis and hypothesis testing using such statistical programs at Excel and Tableau. Your juicy discoveries are then presented to an information designer and data journalist for them to produce an engaging visual story and article the general public can enjoy.
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