AbsolutData - Sr Analyst - Text Analytics

Summary of Job Purpose:

We are looking for analysts with experience in text analytics and Natural Language Processing to work for one of our key clients based out of Bangalore. The analyst will be working on tools that measure brand advocacy real time through Social Media conversations. These tools listen to all social conversations and represents overall brand advocacy and purchase favorability of the products of the client.

Key Accountabilities:

- Working on the solution design and implementation of various text mining tasks; it includes coming up with appropriate algorithm for a particular problem and implementing it using available tools.

- Working on integration of these modules into the product.

- Collect, clean, structure, analyze, plot and export data and charts using business intelligence or statistical tool (such as basic SQL, basic scripting, etc.)

- Represent data by basic statistics, segmentation, correlations, time series charts and other visual formats.

Qualifications and Skills Required:

- Should be able to extract actionable information from unstructured textual data sources.

- Should be able to use various NLP (Natural Language Processing) methods to derive the information from text. Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience required.

- Positive attitude in words and actions, with high ethical standards

- Action oriented; able to handle multiple tasks, deadlines and projects under pressure

- Clear verbal and written communications

- Candidates with an experience in R or Matlab will be preferred.

- Sound knowledge of Databases/ SQL server and Algorithms

- Experience in areas such as text classification, social media or sentiment analysis will be considered a plus.

About AbsolutData:

Founded in 2001, AbsolutData is an award winning global consulting oriented analytics firm, headquartered in San Francisco, with a global delivery model. We help clients take data-driven decisions, which make them more successful and profitable.

AbsolutData currently partners with more than 15 leading fortune 500 financial services, consumer packaged goods, retail and technology companies globally and was rated as one of the fastest growing research and analytics firm by Inc. 500 & Deloitte and was selected as one of the Top 10companies in outsourcing marketing services by IAOP.

AbsolutData services are differentiated and provide significant incremental value to our clients by helping them tackle big data challenges, optimize marketing spends, increase campaign ROI and marketing effectiveness, create better customer satisfaction and retention, execute effective targeted marketing, understand and influence consumer behavior, predict future trends, create additional sales opportunities with existing customers, and optimize business results.