Data Scientist/Senior Economist

CBRE
Boston - United States
S: Competitive

JOB SUMMARY

Working at the direction of the Senior Managing Economist, applies the tools of modern data science using open source architecture to the analysis of CBRE's proprietary data. The purpose is product development for internal and external clients.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Identify and document currently-curated data sources.
Identify and document data sources elsewhere in CBRE.
Identify and document third party data sources.
Develop algorithmic analysis of proprietary data for product development.

QUALIFICATIONS

Master's degree in applied data science or similar machine learning curriculum.
Demonstrated knowledge of R and/or Python, together with SQL.
Demonstrated knowledge of standard machine learning algorithms, based on "An Introduction to Statistical Learning" by James et. al. or similar textbook. Demonstrated knowledge of strengths, weaknesses, and real-world performance of the ML algorithms.
Demonstrated knowledge of web scrapping and data preprocessing.

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