Educational Initiatives (EI), in its mission to reach out to children everywhere to help them learn with understanding, has created an online learning environment called Mindspark. It is a technology-based adaptive learning solution that is developed through cutting-edge educational research and ensures an improved level of learning for students. This is achieved through diagnosing current learning levels, prescribing a personalized learning path and tracking learning progress. Mindspark is currently used by more than 80k students and 175 schools and receives 1 million student responses every day. Harvard has also developed a case study on Mindspark. Role : We are looking for a Data Scientist who will help us discover the information hidden in vast amounts of data, and help us make smarter decisions to deliver even better products. Your primary focus will be on applying data mining techniques, doing statistical analysis, and building high-quality machine learning systems integrated with our products. For example, developing a model to understand how a student learns, what is his / her knowledge state etc. Location: Bangalore What you'll be doing? - Data mining using state-of-the-art methods - Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis - Extending the company's data with third-party sources of information when needed - Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems - Doing the ad-hoc analysis and presenting results in a clear manner - Selecting features, building and optimizing classifiers using machine learning techniques - Production models and integrate as features to specific products - Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance - Develop a strong mechanism to continuously improve data collection and storage process ensuring data consistency and quality Skills/competencies required : - Must have an engineering degree from Tier -1 institute preferably with coursework in operation research, statistics, machine learning or programming - 2 to 3 years of experience in the analytics domain - Hands-on experience with any statistical analysis environments such as R, Python - Proficient in Microsoft office - Familiarity with significance testing, sampling, descriptive statistics, Bayesian models and multivariate statistics - Comfortable with relational and non-relational databases and API development

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Educational Initiatives - Data Scientist - IIM/ISB/MDI/FMS 

Job Description for Educational Initiatives - Data Scientist - IIM/ISB/MDI/FMS  in Educational Initiatives Private Limited in  Bangalore for (2-3) years of experience. Apply Now!