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Polco is hiring a Data Scientist! Polco runs some of the most important local government performance databases in the country, including GPAL, which is a 'Bloomberg Terminal of local government performance.' As a Data Scientist at Polco, you'll help synthesize advanced insights for our roughly 400 premier US local governments across 50 states. With an average population of over 90,000, you'll be positively impacting more than 36 million Americans. This role spans descriptive analytics (characterizing community trends and benchmarks), predictive analytics (cloud-based machine learning models that show communities where their key metrics are headed), and causal analytics (contributing to the causal econometric work Polco is known for, with mentorship from our PhD economist). If you're a mission-driven Data Scientist with a solid statistics foundation and are comfortable working in Python and SQL (R is a plus) on large, cloud-based datasets (Snowflake), this is the role for you. While remote candidates across the US will be considered, our preferred candidate will be located in the Madison, WI area and work a hybrid schedule based out of Polco’s headquarters office. Key Responsibilities Maintain and run Polco’s recurring data processes, including GPAL and other analytic databases (data ingests, cleaning, dataset refreshes), survey weighting and benchmarking, and periodic model updates. Build and improve statistical and predictive models using GPAL and our other databases (for e

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