NYC Data

NYC Data #382: Leaving Github, Counsel Health, The Upshot, Europe's 'American vassalage', Runhouse & Anthropic, Different Timelines of…

And Data Quality Testing with Great Expectations

May 1 • Josh Laurito

April 2026

NYC Data #381: Coding Agents to Decommission Datasets at Spotify, Vicki Boykis on the Craft of ML Today, Vitess at Etsy, Audience at The New…

Plus, replacing the subway's electrical systems

Apr 24 • Josh Laurito

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NYC Data #380: NYC Participatory Budgeting, Train Jazz, Engagement is Dumb, Dynamicland, NYC dbt Meetup, Chimpanzee War

2 days left to vote in NYC Participatory Budgeting!

Apr 17 • Josh Laurito

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NYC Data #379: New MTA Datasets, Rental Inventory in Manhattan, mRNA Cancer Treatments, Strait of Hormuz Data, NY Times Jobs, GenAI in…

Plus, the 4 jobs at tech companies in an AI world

Apr 10 • Josh Laurito

March 2026

NYC Data #378: Building Spotify Wrapped, AI in NYC Schools, NY Times Data Roles, Ad Search Algos at Etsy, Jürgen Habermas & Alex Karp, 25…

Plus, a workshop on coding agents for data analysis

Mar 27 • Josh Laurito

NYC Data #377: My New Job, Daylight Savings Breaks Claude, NYP, Condé Nast, Ramp, Childcare is Expensive, AI Agent Reliability

Also, buying a Co-op in NYC

Mar 20 • Josh Laurito

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NYC Data #376: Cutting a BigQuery Bill, Plaid, Department of Aging, Databricks and Sigma Computing Trivia Night, Imprint, Personalization vs…

Plus, Ctrl-F for NYC

Mar 6 • Josh Laurito

February 2026

NYC Data #375: The Pudding on Women's Clothing, Roku, David Yurman, Infra and Agentic AI, Sinofsky on Platform Transitions, Guardian Life…

Plus, measuring UX friction in practice

Feb 20 • Josh Laurito

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NYC Data #374: OpenAI's Analytics Agent, OLS and Orbits, Pet Insurance Analytics, NYC's Department for the Aging, Query Plan Visualizations…

Plus, statistically evaluating hockey goaltending

Feb 6 • Josh Laurito

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January 2026

NYC Data #373: SimCity-Style NYC, Wes McKinney on AI & Python, The Atlantic, Hallucinated References, Credit Karma, Antenna Streaming Data…

90 pages on measuring snowfall, summarized (thankfully)

Jan 30 • Josh Laurito

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NYC Data #372: The New York Mets, AI Oral Exams, Grubhub, Effective Exec Dashboards, S&P Global, Interviewing in an AI world, Real vs…

Data Science Code vs Software Engineering Code

Jan 16 • Josh Laurito

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NYC Data #371: 311 Wrapped, Getting Claude to Understand JIRA, Kindergarten Expectations, Commuting & Gender Equality, Industrial Software…

Happy New Year!

Jan 2 • Josh Laurito

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