• ReadWriteWeb, Tuesday, December 14, 2010 2:06 PM

In September, Foursquare co-founder Dennis Crowley said the company was building a recommendation engine. Likely aiding that effort, the location-based social network is now looking for a data scientist with "experience with prediction or recommender systems, search and ranking algorithms, and classification algorithms."

Data scientists are statisticians and/or computer scientists who specialize in working with large datasets, notes ReadWriteWeb, adding: "It's likely that Foursquare is looking for someone to turn its massive datasets culled from all those check-ins into something useful and, of course, monetizable." As ReadWriteWeb notes, investing further in data extrapolation is one way for Foursquare to differentiate itself in an increasingly crowded market. Interested in the position? Better have a PhD in CS/Machine Learning or Statistics, and tons of experience with colossal datasets.

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