Description
A new social media site are looking to move into the area of analytics of user data, and because of this have an upcoming vacancy for the first part of there Data Science team.As a website they are focusing on new ways to collect, organise and analyse content from the web.They are expanding, with the beta version of their site launched.
What they will be looking to do in a month's time, once their user base has expanded, is to use cutting edge analytics solutions to gain real insight into customers.
They will be using new analytic techniques and methods, as the majority of their data is unstructured, and based in the cloud.
They also understand that knowledge of this kind of technology is not common at the moment, and are willing to wait out a notice period, or for a re-locate.
They will be using tolls such as -
- Pig
- Hive
- Splunk
- Hadoop
- R
- Mapreduce
They are looking for candidates from a similar background, preferably from E-Commerce or social media data projects, although they will happily look at anyone with the skills!
The rate will be around the £550 P/D mark, and the initial project will be 6 month minimum, with the potential to extend, or go permanent if you want to!