Junior Data Scientist - Cape Town (Fixed Term) at Democratic Alliance

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Supporting the Analyst in the conception, analysis, and conveyance of findings of research in the Campaigns, Ground War, and Research Department, in alignment with the Party’s objectives
• Creating and managing data collection, cleaning and preprocessing
• Conducting exploratory analysis of data, development of regression and machine learning models, model verification, and leveraging AI and other API facilities
• Ensuring the conveyance and visualisation of analysis findings through dashboards, presentations and document reports

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer or data science, statistics, OR a quantitative social science with an appropriate data science qualification 

Experience in:

• Quantitative research (extensive)
• Programming (extensive)
• Management of data systems
• Advanced analysis techniques such as regression modelling, deep/machine learning