Ask HN: Data Scientist/Analyst jobs at environment or wild life organizations?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5915957

by whosbacon • 13 years ago

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manglav• 13 years ago

What are you expecting in terms of compensation? Remember, most of the time these organizations are operating on sparse budgets. It would need a lot of actionable discoveries for an organization to see the benefit of having one on staff. I do know that the New York Times started a new department for this. You should try building something with their very cool API and send something over.

whosbacon2• 13 years ago

I'm looking a lot of money, more of meaningful work and enough to get by. The NYT API does sound interesting, will google for it. Cheers.

WestCoastJustin• 13 years ago

Not really sure what you are looking for by the title, but I would go where the money is. There are tons of energy companies (many are mandated to do environment analysis) that hire data scientist and/or analysts. One example is SUNCOR [1], but there are tons of supporting engineering firms that provide services to these types of companies too. Just google a few and then look for firms that provide services to them. If you're new to the industry, I'm guessing you are, since you're asking, then start trolling these sites and look at the job postings, these will tell you the types of skills / certifications they are looking for.

[1] http://www.suncor.com/en/careers/4769.aspx?qr=data

whosbacon2• 13 years ago

I have data mining and analytics background, but hope to use it for more than marketing and finance applications. I am not sure what are the equivalent roles are within in those industries. Environment is a cause of importance for me, so I hope contribute to it while making a living.

Admittedly, I have not heard of Suncor before. Thanks.

ig1• 13 years ago

There's data organizations like https://discover.amee.com/ who specialize in this space.

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