Data Scientist
- Location
- Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Data scientists take a business or research question — Which customers will churn? Which transactions are fraudulent? What will demand look like next quarter? — and answer it with data. The work spans the full pipeline: sourcing and cleaning data, exploratory analysis, feature engineering, training and validating models (regression, tree … ensembles, neural networks), then communicating results to non-technical stakeholders and, increasingly, shipping those models into production. It sits between the data analyst (who focuses on reporting and insight) and the machine-learning engineer (who focuses on production systems). Strong data scientists pair statistical rigour with software ...