Data Analyst

Company: Ning
Location: Palo Alto, CA
Web: www.ning.com

The Team

• The Ning Analytics team is responsible for working closely with product, engineering, and executive teams to provide them with data analytics and actionable insight through technology, research and self-service business intelligence tools.
• Ning Analytics team manages massive amounts of data along with the platforms and technologies that support it.

• You will play a key role in analyzing the Ning data set and providing relevant site metrics to product, engineering, and executive teams.
• You will learn and leverage a variety of technologies (Hadoop, ETL, Data Warehouse) and languages (SQL, Pig, Java) to perform complex data analysis.
• You will work closely with product and engineering teams to support their analytics needs.

• B.S. in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with scripting languages, regular expressions, and text processing.
• Interest in data mining, social network analysis, spam & fraud detection, and content classification.
• Experience working with limited supervision.
• Experience with MapReduce (Hadoop) or Data Warehouses is a plus.
• Experience in statistics, discrete math and algorithms.

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