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Data Science and Predictive Modelling Intern
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What this role pays, in context
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Two months, one question
Which internship listings actually get filled, and can you predict it on the day the listing is posted? That is the question this two month project exists to answer, and nobody on the team knows yet.
Your working week
You start in pandas with a listings table covering the last eighteen months, join it against application and hire outcomes, and find out quickly how much of it is missing. From there you build a classifier, probably logistic regression first because you will need something interpretable to argue with, then a tree ensemble to see how much signal you left behind. Feature engineering is the heart of it: posting day, skill count, title length, how specifically the location is described. You present coefficients to the operations team, they push back, and you go and check.
Practicalities and what you take away
Three days a week in the Delhi NCR office, two from home. This role is unpaid. In exchange you get a genuine outcome dataset rather than a teaching set, a named mentor from the data team, and a project you can walk somebody through in any interview. Final year students and recent graduates only.
Responsibilities
- Join eighteen months of listings data against application and hire outcomes in pandas
- Profile missing values and decide, with stated reasons, how to handle each column
- Engineer features from posting day, skill count, title length and location specificity
- Build an interpretable logistic regression baseline before reaching for a tree ensemble
- Quantify how much predictive signal the more complex model actually adds
- Present findings to the operations team and revise your analysis after their pushback
Requirements
- Final year student or recent graduate with a quantitative background
- Python, pandas and basic statistics from coursework or self study
- Able to explain a model coefficient to someone who does not write code
- Available for two months with three days a week in the Delhi NCR office
Skills
Benefits
- Certificate + Letter of Recommendation
- A named mentor from the data team for the full two months
- Real outcome data instead of a cleaned teaching dataset
- A portfolio project and presentation you can reuse in interviews