Peers & Partners

Data Scientist

• Provide data management, analysis, and technical assistance to state-funded jurisdictions working with hospital discharge data
• Support receipt, processing, cleaning, validation, transformation, and analysis of large and complex public health datasets
• Use SAS and Python for data management, statistical analysis, data quality assessment, validation, and reporting
• Develop, modify, and maintain SAS programs, Python scripts, data pipelines, analytical processes, and documentation
• Conduct data quality checks and investigate missing, inconsistent, or anomalous data with jurisdictions
• Provide technical assistance on data submission requirements, data structures, coding, processing, analysis, and interpretation
• Troubleshoot data issues and provide practical recommendations to state and jurisdictional data partners
• Assist with data specifications, validation rules, data dictionaries, analytical methodologies, and standard operating procedures
• Analyze hospital discharge and related health data to identify trends, patterns, disparities, and other public-health findings
• Support development of tables, figures, reports, dashboards, presentations, and other data products
• Translate analytical findings into actionable information for project staff, jurisdictions, and federal stakeholders
• Participate in virtual meetings, technical assistance sessions, workgroups, and project discussions with state and federal partners
• Maintain documentation of analytical methods, data management procedures, decisions, and technical assistance
• Collaborate with epidemiologists, statisticians, data analysts, program staff, and other project team members
• Contribute to continuous improvement of data management and analytical processes
• Perform other data management and analytical activities as required

Data Manager – SAS, Python