Spartz is looking for a Data Scientist in Chicago, IL. According to the post, “The Spartz Network, including OMG Facts, GivesMeHope, and MuggleNet, attracts 17 million readers across a dozen websites, mobile sites, and apps. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Chicago, the company is one of the fastest-growing digital media publishers. The Spartz brands have over 12 million followers on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Our communities are passionate and loyal – 60% of our young, highly engaged audience visits a Spartz site every day… So, you want a challenge? How about processing and analyzing all of the data that comes from running 25+ high traffic web sites? What about coming to work every day knowing that our product cycles are measured in hours and days compared to weeks and months at other companies? If that sounds like fun, we’d love to talk to you.  We need someone to help us make sense of all this data.” Read more

Ask.com is looking for a Data Scientist in Oakland, CA. The post states, “Ask.com is looking for a Data Scientist to join a research-oriented team in the Oakland, CA office. The Data Scientist will join a horizontal team supporting the Ask.com core language technologies, which power the search- and database-driven question answering solutions as well as the algorithmic language processing infrastructure for the Q&A community and mobile applications. This position represents a excellent opportunity for you to tackle complex problems and deliver ‘real world’ solutions. We are looking for someone who is passionate, a self-starter and has demonstrated the ability to thrive in a fast paced environment.” Read more

At the recent SemTech conference in NYC, The Semantic Web Blog had an opportunity to ask some leaders in the field about where semantic technology has been, and where it’s going.

David Wood, CTO, 3RoundStones:

The short take: Hiring has been on in a big way at semantic tech players as enterprises are moving in greater numbers to buy semantic software, recognizing their traditional vendors won’t solve their interoperability issues. Sem tech vendors should have a happy 2013 as semantics continues going mainstream.

The full take:

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Amazon is looking for a Data Scientist in Seattle, WA. The post states, “Are you a data analysis ninja? can you seamlessly transition between OLAP/Relational, Graph/RDF and Hive/EMR without breaking a sweat? want to dive deep into the world’s largest financial/contract transaction system and help formalize our ability to make it automatically actionable for our mission critical LOB systems? This is a new effort within Vendor Systems that requires the ability to work independently and efficiently and come up with solutions that are sustainable and efficient and directly impact Amazon’s bottom line, if you want to leave a mark on the future of Amazon, this is your chance.” Read more

The Open Data Institute has Multiple Openings in Shoreditch, UK. According to the institute, “The UK is the first country in the world to create a body solely dedicated to the business of utilising Open Data. The world’s first Open Data Institute (ODI) is being established and will incubate, nurture and mentor new businesses exploiting Open Data for economic growth. Read more

Hadoop is on almost every enterprise’s radar – even if they’re not yet actively engaged with the platform and its advantages for Big Data efforts. Analyst firm IDC earlier this year said the market for software related to the Hadoop and MapReduce programming frameworks for large-scale data analysis will have a compound annual growth rate of more than sixty percent between 2011 and 2016, rising from $77 million to more than $812 million.

Yet, challenges remain to leveraging all the possibilities of Hadoop, an Apache Software Foundation open source project, especially as it relates to empowering the data scientist. Hadoop is composed of two sub-projects: HDFS, a distributed file system built on a cluster of commodity hardware so that data stored in any node can be shared across all the servers, and the MapReduce framework for processing the data stored in those files.

Semantic technology can help solve many of the  challenges, Michael A. Lang Jr., VP, Director of Ontology Engineering Services at Revelytix, Inc., told an audience gathered at the Semantic Technology & Business Conference in New York City yesterday.

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Booz Allen is looking for a Data Scientist in McLean, VA. This person will “Identify trends in data sets and validate expected and unexpected trends in the data to provide resolutions. Develop and support dataset mapping and maintenance into commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) tools. Review business process requirements, including workflow, business rules, and forms and implement these processes using COTS tools. Maintain responsibility for troubleshooting, tuning, and managing software applications.” Read more

Merck is looking for a Health Informatics Data Scientist in Boston, MA. The post states, “The Informatics department develops supports and enables the application of informatics across Merck, in partnership with quantitative organizations throughout the company. Our world-class team is currently seeking outstanding candidates to join to join our global team of diverse informatics professionals, spanning engineering, modeling and simulation, knowledge management, biomedical and health informatics, computational biology and translational informatics. Successful candidates will have the opportunity to collaborate with talented and dedicated colleagues to make a difference to patient healthcare.” Read more

Ask.com is searching for a Data Scientist in Oakland, CA. The post states, “The Data Scientist will join a horizontal team supporting the Ask.com core language technologies, which power the search- and database-driven question answering solutions as well as the algorithmic language processing infrastructure for the Q&A community and mobile applications. This position represents a excellent opportunity for you to tackle complex problems and deliver “real world” solutions. We are looking for someone who is passionate, a self-starter and has demonstrated the ability to thrive in a fast paced environment.” Read more

Ask.com is searching for a Data Scientist in Oakland, CA. The post states, “The Data Scientist will join a horizontal team supporting the Ask.com core language technologies, which power the search- and database-driven question answering solutions as well as the algorithmic language processing infrastructure for the Q&A community and mobile applications. This position represents a excellent opportunity for you to tackle complex problems and deliver ‘real world’ solutions. We are looking for someone who is passionate, a self-starter and has demonstrated the ability to thrive in a fast paced environment. The ideal candidate will possess the following: Natural language processing / computational linguistics background.  Ideal: information retrieval and machine learning applications. Python and/or Perl, shell scripting, XML. Ideal: some Java and/or C/C++, familiarity with SQL and relational databases. Ph.D. in computational linguistics / natural language processing or related areas.” Read more