Intern – Information Technology

Job title: Intern – Information Technology

Job description: Are you creative, dynamic and passionate? Do you like to think outside of the box and find new ways to achieve your goals? Corus Entertainment has an exciting opportunity for you. If you have a passion for excellence, and would like to work for Corus Entertainment, we encourage you to apply.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Data Scientist – Information Technology and the Data Product Manager – Advanced Data Advertising, you will be responsible for the research and development of effective method’s to determine content sentiment within Corus’ video asset store of content aired across specialty and conventional networks.

The goal will be to implement a proof of concept across a small group of episodes which can be scaled (at a later date) to be applied across a broader portfolio of Corus content.

Responsibilities:

• Research the various types of data required to perform a robust sentiment analysis (for example: show genre, dialogue, subtitles, etc.)
• Researchdifferent techniques to conduct sentiment analysis and identify pros and cons for each technique
• Leverage internal content data and external data, if required, to analyze text, speech and perform natural language processing
• Determine small scale taxonomy to assign tone to episode scenes
• Apply the methodologies to a few episodes from shows with different genres
• Propose sales and content applications for sentiment data
• What could a sales solution look like? How can data on asset sentiment help the content teams create content differently?
• Present findings and recommend a technique based on results

About You

What We Need From You:

• Currently a student enrolled in a graduate degree program for business management of AI
• 2+ years using ML techniques in a work or academic environment
• Understand the concepts of feature selection and feature engineering and how to determine the correct features to use in a ML model
• Proficient in python development and the use of query languages like SQL
• Past experience developing ML models that use regression, clustering and classification
• Past experience using NLP techniques like tokenization, POS tagging, stemming, ngrams, word embedding’s and similarity metrics
• Ability to visual results and tell a story via reports using graphs, explanation of techniques/methods and benchmarking of results using some means of evaluation

If You Have the Following….We Want to Hear From You!

• Good communication skills in an Agile team environment
• Background in statistics and statistical techniques
• Ability to present findings and make recommendations to stakeholders
• Development and analysis using R would be nice
• Previous experience implementing sentiment analysis using any online dictionaries or libraries like SentiWordNet, WordStat and Emoticon
• Use of cloud platforms such as, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Azure or IBM Bluemix

Why Corus?

Corus is a driving force in the media industry with a diverse portfolio of strong brands that entertain and inform audiences through great storytelling and compelling content, reaching millions of people around the world every day.

We have a passionate drive to connect with the world around us: to express, to share, to be part of people’s lives. Walk around our offices, our stations, our studios across the country and you’ll feel it. You’ll see it in action.

You’ll see it in the open communication and the approachability of our people. You’ll see it in our care for quality work and the interest in new, creative solutions. You’ll see it in how we work with external partners, and how we care about our communities. These are all core to the values we commit to living each and every day – Win Together, Think Beyond, Make It Happen, Learn Every Day, Show We Care. Our values describe what makes us pretty unique – and amazing – place to work.

At Corus we value and actively involve the full range of what makes people unique in order to create a strong and innovative company where amazing people thrive. A company where people have the full opportunity to show their unique value and develop their potential. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, people of colour, people with disabilities, people from all gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities.

Corus is also committed to providing accommodations throughout the interview and employment process. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

How to Apply

If you’re interested in this role, click ‘apply now’.

*No phone calls please. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Company: Corus

Expected salary:

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Fri, 14 May 2021 23:07:40 GMT