Data Science Intern (Summer 2024)
Weber Shandwick
- Washington DC
- Training
- Full-time
- Data Modelers: data scientists with a background in statistics and modeling (e.g. cluster-based segmentations, regression modeling, decision trees, and media mix modeling)
- Data Engineers: data gurus with skills in accessing data from multiple data sources, building pipelines, ingesting and transforming data to be used for modeling and mining.
- Understand client background and needs, including general business strategy, industry issues, products and services, key customers and competitors in the marketplace
- Participate in strategic brainstorming sessions when invited by account leads or supervisors
- Create and maintain optimal data pipelines and data integration solutions
- Assemble large, complex data sets that meet business requirements through web scraping or API's
- Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, etc.
- Mine and analyze data to drive optimization and improvement of campaign management, marketing techniques and business strategies
- Develop custom predictive models and machine learning algorithms tailored to client's business problem
- Coordinate with different teams to implement models and monitor outcomes
- Education: Bachelor's degree
- Availability: 40 hours a week from June to August
- Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms
- Experience with some or all of the following: AWS or similar platform, Python, SQL, R
- Strong applied statistics skills, such as distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
- Experience with extraction and integration of data from multiple data sources
- Knowledge of ETL techniques and frameworks
- Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau
- Interest in data-based storytelling
- Basic understanding of intersection of traditional and digital PR and familiarity with developments in the media industry
- Strong verbal and written communication, organizational, time-management, and critical-thinking skills
- Experience working with or interest in web analytics, social and traditional media monitoring, and social media analytics platforms
- Experience working with or interest in data visualization tools and creative ways to display information
- Keen eye for data trends and the ability to solve strategic business and communications problems
- Familiarity with developments in the media industry, plus knowledge of a variety of social platforms (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.) and the latest news and trends affecting these channels