Research Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Working with CCHE investigators to identify appropriate statistical methods to address research hypotheses and conducting statistical analyses accordingly.
• Creating analytic datasets by merging, cleaning, and coding data from multiple sources, including behavioral surveys, electronic health records, and public health surveillance.
• Documenting source code and data management and analysis procedures.
• Preparing tables and figures for manuscripts, abstracts, and other scientific publications.
• Contributing to the writing of statistical methods sections for manuscripts and other publications, with opportunities for authorship available.
• Presenting results of statistical analyses to researchers, colleagues, and funders, including formal presentations at conferences.
• Participating in regular meetings with CCHE research staff and data analysts to discuss proposed analyses, share code and analytic approaches, and discuss data and/or methodological challenges as they arise.
• Providing assistance with power calculations and proposed analytic strategies for new grant proposals.
• Depending on expertise and experience, the candidate may provide critical methodological evaluation of newly proposed research designs and suggest design improvements and statistical analysis plans.
• Analyzes moderately complex data sets for the purpose of extracting and purposefully using applicable information.
• Provides professional support to staff or faculty members in defining the project and applying principals of data science in manipulation, statistical applications, programming, analysis and modeling.

Key Skills:

• Data visualization.
• Problem solving.
• Communication skills.
• SQL.
• Machine learning.
• Critical thinking.
• Data cleansing.
• Statistics.