NYC Data

NYC Data #366: Spotify's Experimental Framework and Benchmarks, Decentralized Training of AI Models, Customer Choice Modeling, NYC AI…

Also, the science of calories

Nov 7 • 

Josh Laurito

October 2025

NYC Data #365: LLMs for Feature Engineering, NYC Flooding Options, Subway Data, Taxi Efficiency, Public Interest Tech, Squarespace Data Jobs

Also, what is a Hallow, anyway?

Oct 31 • 

Josh Laurito

1

NYC Data #364: Experimenter-Defined Segmentation, EV vs Gas Car Analysis, AI Company Database, Kubetorch, Women in AI, Versant, The Most…

Also, so many Squarespace Data jobs!

Oct 10 • 

Josh Laurito

NYC Data #363: Netflix’s Maestro, Robinhood, GeoLift, ZocDoc, Phreesia, NYC Public Spaces, Accounting for Selection Bias

Guess how many more steps/day people take after moving to NYC

Oct 3 • 

Josh Laurito

4

September 2025

NYC Data #362: CDC at Squarespace, Freezing MMM Coefficients, NYC DOT, Wonder, Working with CRAN, Services for the Underserved, FDNY

Plus, using data to find a seat on the LIRR

Sep 26 • 

Josh Laurito

2

NYC Data #361: Seasonality in Spotify Recommendations, CAA, NY Blood Center, Airbnb's Viaduct, PhysicsX, J. Crew, YouTube Struggling with…

Did carats come from carob seeds?

Sep 19 • 

Josh Laurito

1

NYC Data #360: 90 Million Etsy Profiles, MMM teardown, NYC DOT, Baton Health, Data Science Careers, NY Times, Albania's AI-Bot Minister

Are we at 'Peak AI Bubble'?

Sep 12 • 

Josh Laurito

1

NYC Data #359: Spatial Data Science Conference, The Pudding, Braze, The Daily Beast, Replit on Building AI Products, Tempus, MixBook, Vicki…

And the sun will soon set on the British Empire!

Sep 5 • 

Josh Laurito

4

August 2025

NYC Data #358: TSA PreCheck Time Savings in NYC, Assessing Bias in LLM Tasks, Angi, Fundwell, Climate Week, Evertune, NYC's Tree Census

Plus, Google's estimate of LLM energy usage

Aug 29 • 

Josh Laurito

2

NYC Data #357: Building a Search Engine from Scratch, Reddit's Analytics Engineering, Hidden Door, FreshDirect, Suno, Credit Genie, AI is…

Plus, more on the GPT-5 rollout

Aug 15 • 

Josh Laurito

2

NYC Data #356: Scenario Planning for Experiments, Fund for Public Health, Faire, Baseball Swing Analytics, Ampersand, Known, Modal's Audio…

Plus, is AI CapEx propping up the US Economy?

Aug 8 • 

Josh Laurito

NYC Data #355: Summer of Puzzles, 'Vibe Data Analysis', The Farmer’s Dog, Ramp, Summer Streets, GoodRx, Perceptions of Social Ties, Etsy

Plus, NYC Summer Streets!

Aug 1 • 

Josh Laurito

2