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Back in the late nineties, when statisticians apparently decided coding was cool, R emerged as a sort of open-source rebellion against the expensive, proprietary statistical packages dominating the landscape. It promised a flexible environment for data analysis, visualization, and, let’s be honest, a frankly alarming degree of customizability. The reality? It’s a bit like building a car from spare parts – incredibly powerful if you really know what you’re doing, but prone to unexpected breakdowns and requiring constant tinkering.

Compared to Python, which has become the darling of the machine learning crowd, R remains stubbornly focused on statistical computing. While Python strives for general-purpose dominance, R happily wallows in its niche, beloved by academics, biostatisticians, and anyone who enjoys wrestling with package dependencies. It’s still surprisingly relevant, powering much of the statistical rigor behind everything from clinical trials to financial modeling. Though one suspects many users are still running code written on floppy disks.

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Analytics Manager @ universal-music-group-uk

GB | 2025-12-28
Universal Music Group pitches a global insights analytics manager role rooted in London, with cross‑office collaboration to steer artist development, audience strategy and label decisions. Expect... read more »
R, Marketing, Analytics, Management, Data Analytics, Data Streaming, Data Quality, Data Science, DataViz, Tableau, Power BI, Looker, SQL, Python, BI
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Streaming Fraud Data Research & Analyst @ universal-music-group-uk

GB | 2025-12-28
Universal Music offers an analyst role in their fraud prevention team focused on investigating streaming and social media anomalies, with a key differentiator being collaboration with DSPs and... read more »
R, Marketing, Data Streaming, SQL, Python, Tableau, Looker
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Associate Data Analyst (New Graduate, Thai Speaking) (Marketing Analytics, Bangkok Based) @ agoda

GB | 2025-12-28
Agoda’s Performance Marketing role sits at the noisy boundary between hands-on experimentation and the data scaffolding that supports it. You’ll work on search and display campaigns across Google,... read more »
Marketing, Data Science, Computer Science, SAS, R, SPSS, Python, VBA, SQL, Tableau
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Marketing Analyst (Marketing Analytics, Bangkok Based, Relocation provided) @ agoda

GB | 2025-12-28
Agoda's Bangkok-based Performance Marketing role sits at the data-driven core of an global marketing machine. You’ll design and analyze experiments across search and display partners (Google,... read more »
Marketing, Data Science, Computer Science, SAS, R, SPSS, Python, VBA, SQL, Data Modelling
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Data Analyst (Bangkok Based, relocation provided) @ agoda

GB | 2025-12-28
This role is a high-stakes, data-driven position at Agoda, focusing on performance marketing and analytics. The job demands expertise in digital marketing, A/B testing, and data science, with a... read more »
Marketing, Data Science, Computer Science, SAS, R, SPSS, Python, VBA, SQL, Tableau, Analytics
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Business Intelligence Analyst II @ the-trade-desk

GB | 2025-12-28
Trade Desk's BI Analyst II offers real cross-functional influence via self-serve reporting across Client Services, Operations and Finance, turning messy data into decisions rather than into pretty... read more »
BI, Analytics, Dashboard, Computer Science, SQL, R, Python, Tableau, Excel, Management
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Growth Strategy Senior Analyst (Madrid based) @ fever-up

GB | 2025-12-26
Fever's Growth Senior Analyst role sits at the intersection of data and strategy in a live-entertainment platform that pitches itself as a global democratizer of culture. The job promises... read more »
Data Analytics, Analytics, SQL, R, Python
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Quantitative Risk Analyst @ schonfeld-group

GB | 2025-12-26
Schonfeld’s Quantitative Risk Analyst sits in Cross-Asset Derivatives Risk, spanning Equity Derivatives, Macro EM and Delta One. The job mixes risk management discipline with portfolio oversight,... read more »
Management, Delta, Analytics, PhD, Computer Science, R, Python, RDBMS, SQL
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Data Analyst - Performance Marketing @ miniclip

GB | 2025-12-25
Miniclip’s Data Analyst for UA Analytics sits at the junction of SQL-driven data plumbing and marketing experimentation. The role demands advanced SQL, +R or Python, and Looker dashboards to... read more »
Analytics, Marketing, Looker, SQL, R, Python, DataViz