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Position Summary:

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior Data Analyst. The NYU Langone Comprehensive Obesity Initiative is a new, institution-wide effort to better understand, treat and manage obesity at the population and clinical levels. The Initiative unites cutting-edge population health, clinical, and basic science research through a uniquely comprehensive electronic data source -- a multi-disciplinary DataBridge. This rich resource will enable investigators to address long-standing questions from completely new perspectives, using cutting-edge machine learning and other big data techniques. Key insights will be translated into real, evidence-based obesity prevention, treatment, and management solutions.

This position helps to build and test a large, comprehensive repository for integration of diverse data pertaining to obesity (basic, clinical, and population sciences). Contributes to the creation of a user-friendly infrastructure that integrates and makes usable diverse and disparate data, and provides foundations for integration of advanced machine learning methods. Conducts wide-ranging analyses on these data, interprets and presents outcomes.

Job Responsibilities:

* Cultivate deep familiarity with methodological approaches and data from diverse sources including big data platforms, large administrative databases, small-scale survey data, clinical and basic science, and others, and work to construct a database integrating them together.
* Assist in writing and editing manuscripts for publication.
* Conduct relevant literature reviews to inform cohort selection, variable definitions, and analytic methods
* Participate in data-driven decision making with investigators
* Develop programs, methodologies, and files for analyzing and presenting data. Clearly communicate processes used and results achieved, and suggest new and alternative approaches.
* Suggest innovative solutions to data questions
* Monitor, evaluate, and improve data quality. Detect and address issues in data, analytic results, and databases.
* Conduct comprehensive statistical analyses according to the study design (e.g., cross-sectional, time series, difference-in-difference, machine learning) and prepare sophisticated reports, charts and tables. Accurately and appropriately interpret and communicate results
* Advanced programming
* Continually manage ongoing additions to database. Import and clean raw datasets and create analytic datasets. Develop, manage, and improve databases to track provenance and versioning.
* Build and test large, comprehensive repository for integration of diverse data (basic, clinical, and population sciences).

Minimum Qualifications:

To qualify you must have:

1. Masters in Data Science or equivalent combination of education and experience
2. 5-6 years experience in database construction. We are open to considering advanced and early-career data scientists.
3. Familiarity with major machine learning models and data mining techniques.
4. Able to write code well in Python, R, or C++. Prior extensive experience with Python.
5. Experience with SQL database design and operations.
6. Passion about being part of a team that solves big problems in health care.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Familiarity with electronic health record databases.
2. Familiarity with data driven modeling is a plus (including gathering and cleaning data, exploratory analysis, implementing models, error analysis, and presenting the findings)
3. Comfortable with interfacing between database and python-pandas or other packages.
4. Experience with a few machine learning open-source packages (such as sklearn)
5. Excellent communication skills

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

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