Data Scientist

At Hedder, we love nerdy things. We are on a mission to connect insights with communities, and working with us means being creative and adaptive. We are a global team across London, Berlin and Hong Kong, and you will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on our innovation effort.

Our culture of continuous learning and commitment to diversity and inclusion creates an environment that allows you to build your skills and career.

We are looking for a data scientist that will help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions to deliver even better products. Your primary focus will be in applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high quality prediction systems integrated with our products.

Responsibilities

• Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques
• Data mining using state-of-the-art methods
• Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
• Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Doing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner

Skills and Qualifications

• Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms
• Experience with common data science toolkits
• Great communication skills
• Experience with data visualisation tools, such as D3.js, GGplot, etc.
• Proficiency in using query languages 
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Good applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
• Good scripting and programming skills