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has always distinguished itself for numeracy and analytical rigour. Our data-journalism team conducts original quantitative research, deploying cutting-edge statistical methods to ask and answer important, relevant questions about politics, economics and society. We are looking to hire a full-time political data scientist.
The data scientist will oversee all of our poll aggregators and predictive models for elections. This entails learning all of the code and calculations behind our existing politics-related technical projects, such as our forecasting systems for presidential and legislative elections in the United States, France and Germany; proposing and implementing improvements to them; and setting up and maintaining data pipelines to keep them updated regularly once they launch.
based on these projects’ findings. Although the successful candidate will also be welcome to pitch and write stories independently, the bulk of the data scientist’s time will be dedicated to number-crunching and to the development and maintenance of software.
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