NYC Data #325: Startup Comp, Election Model Drama, Amazon Bedrock, CookUnity, NY Times, Federal Reserve, Llama 3
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Good Local Posts
The biggest data news this week was Meta releasing Llama 3 models. The paper was notable in many ways but I’ll just call out the minor thing I had a big reaction to: there were so many contributors that they put them in the appendix! I counted 525 of them: really shows the investment Meta has made here, and the team’s sophistication.
Aleks Fiuk of Econify wrote about taking Amazon’s Bedrock for a test drive: it’s a good overview of the tool and some details you might need to know while using it.
The election model drama is starting up again 🍿🍿🍿 here’s Andrew Gelman on some of the latest.
Upcoming In-Person Events (new listings in bold)
7/30: Lonboard: Fast, Interactive Geospatial Vector Data Visualization in Jupyter & JS
7/30: Platform Engineering New York: Data, Resilience, and More
7/31: Sora: Exploring Ethics, AI, and Personalization
8/13: Practical applications of Generative AI: building a chatbot answering questions
8/21: Hybrid Chatbots: Merging LLMs and Classification Models
Open Roles
Squarespace is hiring a Manager, Marketing Channel Analytics & Operations. We’re looking for someone strong in MMM / Attribution and knows the MarTech space well. This role has a lot of visibility in the company (our attribution model gets mentioned in our earnings calls)! Please reach out to me if you’re interested or if you know someone I should talk to.
Friends at Peloton are looking for a Senior Director, Product Analytics and other analytics roles.
The New York Times is hiring a Vice President, Data Products, Advertising.
CookUnity is seeking a Sr Data Scientist, Food & Chef Portfolio.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is hiring a Data Analytics Specialist.
Bilt Rewards is looking for a Manager, Data Analytics (via Draftboard).
OneSignal is seeking an Engineering Manager, User Data (via Draftboard).
Miscellany
I just discovered https://analytics.usa.gov/, which is kind of a bonkers site. As I write this, it says 1,124,991 users on U.S. Federal Government websites and apps in the last 30 minutes, and 45% came from Google!
Carta’s State of startup compensation is a great example of making the most of the data you have. It’s also an interesting read (3,500 words)!
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