WANTED: Data Scientist

The UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media seeks a data scientist to work with students, faculty and industry in the Reese News Lab. This is a full-time, 12-month non-faculty position that is funded by a three-year grant from the Knight Foundation.

This is an exciting opportunity to apply data analysis skills to media innovation and the challenge of getting the right information to the right people at the right time — especially information that citizens need to hold powerful people accountable and better understand the complex world we all share.

He/she needs to be able to communicate their findings, orally and visually, and know how to integrate multiple systems and data sets and be able to link and mash up distinctive data sets to discover new insights. This often requires connecting different types of data sets in different forms as well as being able to work with potentially incomplete data sources and cleaning data sets to be able to use them.

He/she needs to be able to program, preferably in different programming languages such as Python, R, or SQL.

For more information and to apply, visit unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/126954.