Deadline- 10 July 2012
Facebook is inviting applications for recruiting competition to demonstrate skills on a real-world social network dataset, and show them your creativity, open-mindedness and tenacity in the face of an open-ended predictive modeling problem.
Eligibility–
- M.S. or Ph.D. in a relevant technical field, or 4+ years experience in a relevant role
- Extensive experience solving analytical problems using quantitative approaches
- Comfort manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensionality data from varying sources
- A strong passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data
- A flexible analytic approach that allows for results at varying levels of precision
- Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
- Fluency with at least one scripting language such as Python or PHP
- Familiarity with relational databases and SQL
- Expert knowledge of an analysis tool such as R, Matlab, or SAS
- Experience working with large data sets, experience working with distributed computing tools a plus (Map/Reduce, Hadoop, Hive, etc.)
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