job description job title data scientist location madison wi about this role data scientists address the challenges of modern big data organizing massive disparate data sets using statistics machine learning and optimization the comscore madison data science team is responsible for detection of invalid and anomalous data organization of foundational data assets that track users across the internet and research and development of new products that allow our clients to better understand how the world consumes digital content what youll do design and implement statistical optimization and machine learning algorithms at scale using pyspark apache pig and sql based languages validate analyze and visualize results interpret and present findings to management and business decision makers work with enormous datasets including graph structured data with billions of nodes and unstructured data with trillions of rows author technical and academic publications showcasing capabilities of comscores data assets to solve real world problems deal with highly distributed data sources cope with sampling biases and heterogeneity and work with different data formats and structures develop algorithms that exploit parallel and distributed architectures ensure data integrity and security develop methods for visualizing massive data develop scalable and incremental algorithms and cope with the need for realtime analysis and decisionmaking what youll need ms or phd in computer science statistics engineering mathematics or related field strong candidates at the bs level will be considered in addition to 2 years of professsional data science experience experience in python apache spark matlab cc java perl apache pig hadoop and mapreduce or related language sound understanding of statistics ability to apply critical thinking to quickly identify and resolve data issues experience in data analysis and problem solving with big data ability to think creatively and solve complex problems ability to autonomously manage simultaneous projects in a fastpaced business environment knowledge of relational databases and methods for efficient data retrieval experience with sql or knowledge of relational databases and methods for efficiently retrieving data strong verbal and written communication skills experience with statistical software or scientific computation software egr matlab is preferred hadoop or other comparable mapreduce experience is preferred experience with handson coding from scratch is preferred exposure to internet measurement data is a plus online advertising industry experience is a plus about comscore at comscore were pioneering the future of crossplatform media measurement arming organizations with the insights they need to make decisions with confidence central to this aim are our people who work together to simplify the complex on behalf of our clients partners though our roles and skills are varied were united by our commitment to five underlying values integrity velocity accountability teamwork and servant leadership if youre motivated by big challenges and interested in helping some of the largest and most important media properties and brands navigate the future of media wed love to hear from you comscore nasdaq scor is a trusted partner for planning transacting and evaluating media across platforms with a data footprint that combines digital linear tv overthetop and theatrical