NYC Data #327: JetBlue, Amtrak, Unstructured Data in LLMs, Etsy, Nate Silver's New Book, Urban Heat Islands, Robin Hood
Hi friends: we’re in the home stretch of summer! I have some time off coming up where I’ll be local. Please send me your best suggestions of what hidden NYC gems I should experience during my staycation!
As always, help me keep this space up-to-date: please send me posts, events, and job openings. [image credit: Etienne Frossard]
Good Local Posts
Nate Silver’s new book is out (!) and Andrew Gelman, of all people, has a 4,400 word long review!
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor have a new post on how unreliable AI existential risk probabilities are. While the headline topic isn’t really that compelling to me, their assessment of inductive vs deductive probability estimation was interesting and framework I hadn’t considered.
The Brown Institute at Columbia released a really interesting application, mapping urban heat islands across 65 US cities. The maps are really information dense and they don’t do a great job explaining acronyms (NVDI is normalized difference vegetation index) but they’re interesting guides to city microclimates, which are super useful.
Upcoming In-Person Events (new listings in bold)
8/21: Hybrid Chatbots: Merging LLMs and Classification Models
8/22: Open Source Data Deep Dives
8/27: Chunking Strategies for RAG
8/29: Easy Cleaning with the Janitor Package
9/10: New York dbt meetup
9/16: Unstructured Data in LLMs
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.
My colleagues on the Data Engineering side are looking for a Senior Data Engineer, Platform Engineering.
Friends at Etsy reached out to let me know that they are hiring for a whole host of data-oriented roles.
Amtrak is seeking a Senior Director of Business Strategy & Tech Integration.
Friends at Econify are looking for a Software Engineer.
JetBlue is seeking a Safety Data Governance & Insights Analyst.
If you’re looking for a temp position, the Robin Hood Foundation is hiring a Temporary Business Intelligence Associate.
Miscellany
On Locally Optimistic, Amalia Child wrote an analogy between analytical work and library science, keyed off of S. R. Ranganathan’s The Five Laws of Library Science (I actually lived across the street from the first Carnegie library built in New York City on 79th street, which I loved).
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