Data Scientist 1

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Organization:

VICTR

Job Summary:

Job Summary

The Pulmonary Circulation Center is seeking a talented and motivated Data Scientist to join our interdisciplinary team dedicated to advancing the understanding and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. As a Data Scientist, you will play a key role in leveraging statistical and machine learning techniques to extract valuable insights from electronic health records linked to genomic and longitudinal wearables data. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting-edge research and directly impact patient care.

About the Department:

The Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical & Translational Research (VICTR) is Vanderbilts virtual home for clinical and translational research. Supported by Vanderbilt University Medical Centers Office of Research and the NIH-sponsored Clinical and Translational Service Award (CTSA), the mission of the institute is to transform the way ideas and research discoveries make their way from origin to patient care. VICTR functions to help researchers and clinicians do their jobs better by providing tools and support to improve the quality of research, publications, grant writing, and training for future doctors and researchers.

Key Responsibilities

Work closely with clinicians and other healthcare professionals to understand their data needs and develop solutions that contribute to research, publication in medical journals, and improving patient care.
Participate in research projects to advance the understanding of cardiovascular disease through data-driven approaches.
Design, develop, and modify scripts or software applications to support data management, extraction, and analysis.
Integrate data from various sources, including electronic health records, longitudinal wearable device data, and genomics datasets.
Conduct in-depth analysis of diverse datasets by applying statistical and machine learning methods to extract meaningful insights for research projects.
Develop statistical models to identify potential disease risks and outcomes.
Build machine learning algorithms to assist in early detection of cardiac diseases.
Effectively communicate findings to both technical and non-technical collaborators through reports, presentations, and visualizations.
Design and develop algorithms for the phenotyping of cardiovascular disease.
Collaborate with healthcare professionals to ensure the accuracy of phenotyping algorithms and refine as needed.
Ensure data quality and implement strategies for data cleaning and normalization.
Stay abreast of the latest advancements in data science and machine learning to propose and implement innovative solutions.

Required Skills

Proficient in both R and Python for data analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning. While expertise in both R and Python is preferred, candidates with strong proficiency in one language and a willingness to learn the other will also be considered.
Experience with SQL including data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes.
Extensive experience in exploratory data analysis and statistical analysis to derive meaningful insights.
Strong understanding and practical application of regression, clustering, and predictive modeling.
Proficient in using tools such as ggplot2, Matplotlib, Seaborn, or Plotly to create clear and compelling data visualizations.
Experience with Spark and PySpark is preferred, but not required.
Familiarity with the Ruby programming language is preferred, but not required.

Technical Capabilities

INFRASTRUCTURE (INTERMEDIATE)

Identifies the data-analytics problems that offer the greatest opportunities. Determines the correct data sets and variables. Collects large sets of structured and unstructured data from disparate sources. Cleans and validates the data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and uniformity. Devises and applies models and algorithms to mine the stores of big data. Analyzes the data to identify patterns and trends. Interprets the data to discover solutions and opportunities.

ANALYSIS AND TESTING (INTERMEDIATE)

Brings structure to large quantities of formless data and makes analysis possible. Identifies rich data sources, joins them with other, potentially incomplete data sources, cleans the resulting set and validates the data to ensure accuracy, completeness, and uniformity. Identifies trends, correlations, and high-level characteristics to detect key insights and make predictions. Finds a story within a data set and provides a coherent narrative about key data insights.

DATA PRODUCTS (INTERMEDIATE)

Uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to turn massive data streams produced by operations into insights. Uses programming languages such as Python, R, SQL, and Jupyter for statistics, mathematics, algorithms, modeling, data visualization, and reproducible research and reporting. Uses cloud computing, cloud-based services and APIs for data storage and access, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI).

COMMUNICATION (NOVICE)

Delivers data to internal and external customers in the form of dashboards, reports, and emails. Effectively communicates technical and business ideas and information to others, including non-technical audiences in writing, with numbers, verbally and/or visually. Shares knowledge, ideas and information openly, and effectively sell new ideas and influences others.

Basic Qualifications

Masters in data science, biomedical informatics, public health, health policy, or related field with 3 years of experience
or PhD, MD, or equivalent doctoral degree with 0-2 years of experience

Our Academic Enterprise is one of the nations longest serving and most prestigious academic medical centers. Through its historic bond with Vanderbilt University and integral role in the School of Medicine, Vanderbilt Health cultivates distinguished research and educational programs to advance a clinical enterprise that provides compassionate and personalized care and support for millions of patients and family members each year.

World-leading academic departments and comprehensive centers of excellence pursue scientific discoveries and transformational educational and clinical advances across the entire spectrum of health and disease.

Aligning with Vanderbilt Healths Strategic Directions, the Office of Research provides shared research resources, administrative expertise and professional guidance to enable the trans-disciplinary environment and highly collaborative culture that advances discovery and training for all the research faculty, trainees, students and staff.

Core Accountabilities:

Organizational Impact: Delivers job responsibilities that impact own job area/team with some guidance. Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Uses existing procedures, research and analysis to solve standard job related problems that may require some judgement. Breadth of Knowledge: Requires subject matter knowledge within a professional area to meet job requirements. Team Interaction: Individually contributes to project/ work teams.

Core Capabilities :

Supporting Colleagues: - Develops Self and Others: Continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities.- Builds and Maintains Relationships: Seeks to understand colleagues priorities, working styles and develops relationships across areas. - Communicates Effectively: Openly shares information with others and communicates in a clear and courteous manner. Delivering Excellent Services: - Serves Others with Compassion: Invests time to understand the problems, needs of others and how to provide excellent service. - Solves Complex Problems: Seeks to understand issues, solves routine problems, and raises proper concerns to supervisors in a timely manner. - Offers Meaningful Advice and Support: Listens carefully to understand the issues and provides accurate information and support. Ensuring High Quality: - Performs Excellent Work: Checks work quality before delivery and asks relevant questions to meet quality standards.- Ensures Continuous Improvement: Shows eagerness to learn new knowledge, technologies, tools or systems and displays willingness to go above and beyond. - Fulfills Safety and Regulatory Requirements: Demonstrates basic knowledge of conditions that affect safety and reports unsafe conditions to the appropriate person or department. Managing Resources Effectively :- Demonstrates Accountability: Takes responsibility for completing assigned activities and thinks beyond standard approaches to provide high-quality work/service. - Stewards Organizational Resources: Displays understanding of how personal actions will impact departmental resources. - Makes Data Driven Decisions: Uses accurate information and good decision making to consistently achieve results on time and without error. Fostering Innovation: - Generates New Ideas: Willingly proposes/accepts ideas or initiatives that will impact day-to-day operations by offering suggestions to enhance them.- Applies Technology: Absorbs new technology quickly; understands when to utilize the appropriate tools and procedures to ensure proper course of action. - Adapts to Change: Embraces changes by keeping an open mind to changing plans and incorporates change instructions into own area of work.

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Work Experience :

Relevant Work Experience

Experience Level :

3 years

Education :

Master's

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