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lead data scientist
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A Lead Data Scientist is a key role in an organization's data science team. They are responsible for managing the team, setting goals and objectives, developing processes and protocols, leading projects, validating models, analyzing data sets to identify patterns or trends, creating predictive models and deploying machine learning algorithms. Additionally they must be able to communicate their findings effectively with stakeholders across all levels of the organization. The ideal candidate should have strong technical expertise in Statistics & Machine Learning techniques as well as experience leading large-scale data science initiatives from concept through completion.

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3.8 years
$151K
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3.07 years
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  • Doctor Of Philosophy (ph.d.) In Mathematics
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    Avg. Duration:37 monthsAvg. Fees:$36,354Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Doctor Of Philosophy (ph.d.) In Chemical Engineering
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    Avg. Duration:40 monthsAvg. Fees:$31,545Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Doctor Of Philosophy (ph.d.) In Statistics
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    Avg. Duration:44 monthsAvg. Fees:$30,366Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
  • Master Of Science (m.sc.) In Operations Research
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    Avg. Duration:15 monthsAvg. Fees:$35,159Type:Mostly full timeView more on Studyportals
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