Data Analyst
TECHEAD
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Job Description:
Data Analyst | 19821
Local Richmond, VA candidates
Onsite requirement work onsite 2-3 day/week – Richmond, VA
Contract – 7 Months – Could Extend
No C2C Candidates
Perform Data Analytics tasks like data acquisition and cleaning; processing; validation; fusion & conflation; analytics, reporting & visualization; prototype pilot client projects; and ad-hoc analyses.
- Engaged in various aspects of Data Analytics tasks including but not limited to the following: Data acquisition, cleaning and preparation tasks require working with many data sets other data and obtaining those through different means such as: graphical user interfaces, APIs, direct access to back-end databases either internally from client or from third party vendor and archives.
- Data cleaning and preparation steps will be needed, especially for free-form text fields, and they may be different based on the data set and source.
- Data fusion tasks require merging or aligning (fusing) data sets on the spatial(location) or temporal (point in time or similar period of year and time of day)dimensions, in a redundant (same attributes) or complementary (different attributes) fashion.
- Data analysis and visualization tasks will require the incumbent to apply tried-and-true but also new-and-innovative methods to identify historical travel trends, conduct Before-and-After studies, perform congestion and reliability analyses for specified areas and time periods of interest, identify locations and time periods experiencing unusual traffic behavior.
- Analysis results will be presented in a format and at a level of detail appropriate for the audience, through interactive and static charts, graphs, and maps. GIS and map conflation will require leveraging existing map conflation tools and algorithms.
- Manual checking and validation of conflation will be needed since conflation algorithms are not perfect and do not cover all real-life situations.
- Some research to perform the above tasks will be needed.
- Research will include but not be limited to literature review of data analytics algorithms, investigating the feasibility and usability of incorporating new data sources into analytics algorithms to improve accuracy and relevance of results, forecasting methods.
Skills
- Data retrieval (UI, SQL, API) | Required | 3 Years
- Data Engineering (cleaning, preparation, validation) | Required | 3 Years
- Data analytics, integration, and visualization | Required | 2 Years Advanced Excel skills | Highly desired | 3 Years
- Visualization platforms: Tableau, PowerBI Required | 2 Years Scripting/coding for data science: Python, R | Highly desired | 2 Years
- GIS tools: ArcMap, ArcGIS Pro | Highly desired | 1 Years |
- Exposure to some transportation skills & concepts | Desired
- Data fusion | Desired | 1 Years
- Data science (model development, applying machine learning to transportation problems) | Nice to have |
- Map conflation | Nice to have
- Attention to detail | Required
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to present data in a format understandable to diverse audience
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