Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The Global Capital Allocation Project (GCAP) is recruiting for a Data Scientist based at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in Stanford, CA. GCAP
(https://www.globalcapitalallocation.com/) is a growing team of professionals devoted to answering major policy and societal questions related to international macroeconomics and finance. GCAP works closely with leading academic, government, and nonprofit institutions across the globe to generate research that informs policy and practice.

The Data Scientist will help promote GCAP’s mission by developing and managing internal lab data and code pipelines for multiple large-scale projects. The focus of the role will be on assembling, assessing, merging, and analyzing Big Data, designing and developing applications and analytical insights, and testing and building automation tools. This includes helping with assembling and validating the lab’s internal research-ready databases, starting from many separate raw databases. These processes underlie the lab’s public-facing research estimates and analyses. The Data Scientist will conceptualize and control production code and develop graphical analyses representing key data insights visually in a meaningful way.

The Data Scientist is accountable for reporting on all lab activities to the GCAP lab Faculty Director at Stanford University, Professor Matteo Maggiori. The Data Scientist also interfaces with all lab researchers in helping build data, code, and analysis that fosters the lab’s objectives.

Full Job description and application:
https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/data-scientist-global-capital-allocation-project-23403