NYC Data #100: 100(!)
Hi friends: while round numbers are sometimes silly markers, I'm really excited to be sending email #100. Over the last 2+ years, this email has introduced me to a whole host of interesting people and helped me learn about this community. Most gratifyingly, it's helped me connect a lot of great people to jobs that they want.
Thanks so much to everyone who has reached out with a job, a post they wrote, or just to say hi!
Mid-Level Roles
Betterment is looking for an Analytics Manager, and a whole host of other roles.
My friends at The Atlantic are looking for a Senior Data Engineer.
Mount Sinai Hospital is looking for a Data Scientist.
Citibank is hiring a Data Scientist.
NYU's Brain Imaging Center is looking for a Research Scientist.
Upcoming Talks/Events (new listings in bold)
5/22: How Stan computes the posterior distribution
5/29: 1-Trillion Rows Per Second
6/5: Bayesian Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel Hierarchical Model
6/7: Discover A Novel Neural Network Architecture for Natural Language Processing
6/14: Data Science SALON
6/21: Feature-Based Time Series Analysis
9/27: NYC Media Lab
11/29: NYC Media Lab Exploring Future Reality (no link yet)
Upcoming Conferences/Multi-Day Events (new listings in bold)
5/17 - 5/18: Risk Americas
5/22 - 5/24: Data Disrupt
6/4 - 6/7: International Conference on Healthcare Informatics
6/7 - 6/8: Future Perfect
6/25 - 6/29: QCon
6/26 - 6/27: MongoDB World
7/11 - 7/15: Industrial Conference on Data Mining
7/11 - 7/12: DashCon
7/14 - 7/19: International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
8/21 - 8/24: JupyterCon
9/6 - 9/7: AI in Finance
9/11 - 9/13: Strata
10/5 - 10/6: PyGotham
10/25 - 10/26: Deep Learning Summit
10/25 - 10/26: Deep Learning in Finance
Good Local Posts
- David Robinson wrote about scientific debt
- Loved this, from Gelman: "What killed alchemy was the insistence that experiments must be openly reported in publications"
- Tom Lai and Bill Cauchois of Foursquare wrote about contextual notifications
Miscellany
- I was sent the Gehl Public Life Data Protocol, which is basically a spec for studies of urban activities, with a bias towards transport; I'll be following the Gehl Institute going forward
- The Guardian wrote about their move to using encrypted root EC2 volumes with some technical detail, which was interesting
- Sidewalk released a responsible data use policy framework
Please pass this email along to any good people you know who might be interested in it. To see previous job listings (many of which are still open!) and blogs, check out the archive.
If you want your job or event or blog post to be included in the next version of this email, or if you have suggestions about how this could be better, please let me know!
Josh