http://data.betaworks.com/betaworks-data-summer-internships/
The betaworks data science team is looking for interns to join our group this summer. If you dream of data, social graphs and are passionate about Topic Modeling, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing and/or Data Visualization, this opportunity is for you! Computer science and information studies PhD or Masters student are preferred. That said, we’re always excited to bring in the right candidate from other disciplines.
Betaworks is a technology studio in New York City, building new products, growing companies and seed investing. Tweetdeck, bitly, SocialFlow and Chartbeat launched out of betaworks over the past couple of years. We’re currently incubating 11 different small to medium-sized startups. As a data science intern at betaworks, you will get to work the betaworks studio companies on a multitude of problems and datasets. From the media side, with digg and Instapaper, to Giphy, our animated GIF search engine, to poncho, a personalized weather app, and other early stage incubations. As one can imagine, data at betaworks is incredibly varied, ranging from social data, to multimedia, information consumption and weather prediction data streams. Trust us, there’s no chance that you’ll be bored.
The betaworks data science team splits its time between:
- Building Products – we use a wide array of methods, ranging from topic modeling, natural language processing, time series analysis, prediction, classification, and data visualization as a way to build novel features into existing betaworks products, as well as experiment with new product ideas. We use various python libraries, and utilize data stores such as redis, hypertable, HBase and Hadoop, amongst others.
- Research / Storytelling – we love telling stories based on our data. We collaborate with the digg editors on original content as well as publish in-depth analyses on the betaworks data blog We’re committed to publishing both on our blog and in academic journals. It is our priority to get your summer work published.
We’re looking for passionate people who are interested in making sense of data, the dynamics of information sharing, and building beautiful products that people love using. This is a paid internship. Times and length are flexible.
To apply: (deadline – Apr 14th, midnight EDT)
Send an email to data -at- betaworks -dot- com with the subject “Betaworks Data Summer Intern Application” that includes the following:
- A brief description of your dissertation, master’s project or equivalent
- An article that you have written (blog or journal) or a piece of code you’ve used to analyze data (code or github repo)
- A copy of your CV
- Links to your website or other online presence
- A short description of 1-3 projects that you might imagine doing as an intern at betaworks
