Ask HN: Part-time/remote data science?

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Post by thebarknight » Sun, Feb 22, 2015, 4:34 AM UTC

I see a ton of jobs around the web for part-time or remote work as a {language, platform} developer. I am a graduate student in statistics and newish to data science. When I look around for part-time or remote work related to data science/R (yes, I know about R-jobs) the pickings are considerably slimmer. Where do you find your data science gigs, HN?

Re: Ask HN: Part-time/remote data science?

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Post by gamechangr » Sun, Feb 22, 2015, 4:39 AM UTC

I think remote data science jobs are hard to come by, especially for a junior/newer developer.

I would check we work remotely. They have quite a few Database related jobs. https://weworkremotely.com/

Re: Ask HN: Part-time/remote data science?

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Post by paulsutter » Sun, Feb 22, 2015, 5:05 AM UTC

Kaggle[1] has data science competitions with cash prizes which any one can enter. They also have a jobs board, which lists a number of jobs that allow remote work[2].

[1] http://www.kaggle.com/

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=remote&sitesearch=www.kaggle...

Re: Ask HN: Part-time/remote data science?

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Post by omarforgotpwd » Mon, Feb 23, 2015, 4:57 AM UTC

We're hiring in this area at PredPol right now. PredPol's a company I co-founded that uses past crime data to try and predict where crime is going to happen in the future. Police departments try and use these predictions to get to the right place at the right time and stop crime before it happens.

Email jobs@predpol.com if you think you'd be a good fit!