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Introduction: Mark Blumenthal writes: HuffPost Pollster has an immediate opening for a social and data scientist to join us full time, preferably in our Washington D.C. bureau, to work on development and improvement of our poll tracking models and political forecasts. You are someone who has: * A passion for electoral politics, * Advanced training in statistics and dynamic Bayesian data analysis, * A Ph.D. in statistics, political science, economics or the social sciences or comparable high level training or experience, * A desire to make a lasting contribution in the way the news media cover polls and elections. We are: * The award-winning website formerly known as Pollster.com , which joined the Huffington Post in 2010 and remains the internet’s premier source for uniquely interactive polling charts and electorate forecasts and a running daily commentary that explains, demystifies and critiques political polling. * Home to the open source Pollster API, which provides academic
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