Data Analyst

Company: Digitek Software, Inc.
Location: Indianapolis
Posted on: March 28, 2020

Job Description:

One of our clients is looking for Data Analyst in IN on the following skills A Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science or related field is required Candidates must be available to interview onsite, after initial phone interview. Job Description Client is seeking a data-savvy individual to fill a data analyst role. This is a full-time contractor position funded by the CDC Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) grant. The position will support mental health surveillance activities as part of the drug overdose monitoring and prevention efforts at ISDH. Opportunities to support other agency data initiatives will also be available. The bidirectional causal relationships between mental health and substance use are well-documented. Still, mental health surveillance receives relatively little attention Less than 5 of epidemiologists work in the emerging areas of substance abuse, informatics, and mental health. 1 The individual in this role will address this gap by collecting, analyzing, and displaying mental health related information for the Indiana population. Specific mental health metrics of immediate interest include General mental health Depressive disorder Suicide ideation Diseases of despair Drug and alcohol overdose Suicide Alcoholic liver disease Required Expertise with SQL and either Python or R (minimum 1 year). Experience analyzing datasets and querying databases (minimum 2 years). Plus Strong understanding of machine learning concepts and tools. Experience training others to use SQL, R, or Python. Cursory experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This information is available across various data sources including BRFSS, Census, Vital Records, and Emergency Department data. The differentiated burden of these conditions should be assessed across sex, race, age group, and districtcounties. The individual will also use socioeconomic data to relate these conditions to poverty levels, discerning differences across income levels. This work will provide an evidentiary foundation for a Mental health and Substance Use Report. The position will also support the onboarding of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and Poison Control (PC) data into ESSENCE, our syndromic surveillance data analysis tool. Having these two data sources available within the ESSENCE system will support drug overdose surveillance needs. Aspects of the projects involve Requirements gathering and prioritization discussions with stakeholders to ensure user needs are met from a data user perspective and from an ESSENCE front-end user perspective. Analysis of historical and current schemas to assess how best to reconcile the two schemas into one, thus allowing historical trend analyses across pre- and post-schema transition periods. Development of crosswalk documents to explain reconciliation work of mapping or linking across tables. Iterative assessments of the ESSENCE integrated data products. Documentation describing why specific decisions were made resulting in final data products. Documents and queries demonstrating the utility of the final data products. The position will respond to routine data requests across a number of ISDH systems. Given the extent of textual data amenable to analysis, opportunities are available to apply natural language processing and machine learning to this information. The individual is expected to be highly curious, especially about the capabilities of open-source tools and problems that involve data. The individual will perform diverse analytic tasks involving dataset linking, visualization, descriptive analyses, statistical testing, and machine learning (depending on skills and interest). Depending on the skill maturity level, the position may also have the opportunity to serve in a data consultant role for other data initiatives in the agency (especially those relating to substance use), providing guidance on strategies and tools to problems at the systems level. The individual should be highly self-driven and will work with a team of fellow data enthusiasts. The individual must have substantial experience working with data using the Python andor R programming languages. The successful candidate may have to undergo a drug test and background check. Sincerely, Rakhi Ankush Digitek Software, Inc. 650, Radio Drive, Lewis Center, OH 43035 Work 614 764 8875 x 137Fax 614 792 5840 Email Web URL Current open positions

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