Senior Data Scientist - Belgium - Machine Learning

Brussels  ‐ Onsite
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Senior Data Scientist - Brussels (contract)

Senior Data Scientist/Machine Learning expert/Text Data Mining

Position Summary

Our client, a global technology business, is seeking a senior data scientist/machine learning expert/natural language processing expert to extend a team in a project that requires Data Science, Taxt Data Mining skills

As the teams data scientist and machine learning expert, you are able to deal with data (processing, cleaning, defining relevant features, etc) in order to make it ready for machine learning algorithms. You propose hypotheses and create machine learning models that create business value.As a natural language expert, you help define the architecture of the new NLP system that is aimed at being able to handle natural language text and extract relevant knowledge from it. You are able to bring the defined architecture into reality.

Profile

Scientific method

Masters or Doctorate degree in a quantitative field (eg, mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering, etc.) required.

Experience in using the scientific method and empirical research to answer business questions. Formulates hypotheses, then designs experiments to collect the necessary data and/or explores existing data sets.

Experience with Text Data Mining and/or NLP. If that experience includes sentiment analysis that is a big plus.

Can apply supervised and non supervised machine learning techniques such as clustering, SVM, Random Forests, deep neural networks, bayesian networks, hidden markov models, collaborative filtering, regression methods, etc.

Data exploration and visualization

Data cleaning and data wrangling tools are used to reshape the data.

Creates and trains machine learning models to capture the knowledge learned and to transform it into product, service or process features. These models have good accuracy/recall/prediction values outside of the training set.

Has 2+ years of experience of using supervised and unsupervised machine learning models on real world problems. NLP experience also valued.

The created models are implementable in the target product, and fit for purpose. She/he implements and integrates the model into the target product, or works closely with the team that does.

Reproducible research and result communicaton

Has excellent communication skills. Communicates the extracted knowledge to the team and the business in reports and presentations.

Visualizes the data in a variety of tools and creates a meaningful narrative and conclusion. Results are reproducible, meaningful and interpretable.

Languages

Excellent Python development skills, including familiarity with pandas, scikit-learn, numpy, scipy, Jupyter notebooks and other components of Python ecosystem.

Good R development skills

Contact Steve for more details

Start date
ASAP
Duration
Long term contract available
From
Stelfox Ltd
Published at
27.02.2018
Project ID:
1510933
Contract type
Freelance
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