NYC Data #329: Data Nobel Prizes, Effective Data Analysis, GenerativeTS, Consumer Reports, PWC Fraud Tech, MTA Open Data Challenge, Chrysler Building
Hi friends: pretty cool that the Northern Lights were visible last night: this pic is from the Central Park Reservoir. G’mar chatimah tova to everyone observing Yom Kippur tonight & tomorrow, and happy Columbus Day / Indigenous Peoples' Day to everyone!
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Good Local Posts
John Naglick of Econify wrote about GenerativeTS: A Web-Optimized TypeScript Library they developed for AI Apps. It’s on Github here and seems pretty nifty: a great way to understand the base params and semantics of different LLMs. From looking at the documentation I’m getting a sense that John really likes the Mets, so it’s timely in that regard as well :-).
Mona Khalil’s new book, Effective Data Analysis, is available online: the datasets & exercises are free: the book is available as an eBook and pending full publication.
The MTA is hosting its first-ever Open Data Challenge! Sounds like a lot of fun!
Upcoming In-Person Events (new listings in bold)
10/16: Databricks NYC Fall Meetup
10/16: New York Machine Learning Meetup (NYC Traffic Data Presentation)
10/23: AI Talks, Demo & Social: AI Regulation and Architecture
10/23: Unstructured Data in LLMs
10/27: NYC Visual AI Hackathon
10/30: AI-Python For a Kinder New York City
11/16: R-Ladies NYC November Book Club
Open Roles
Squarespace is hiring a Manager, Marketing Channel Analytics & Operations and a Product Insights Analyst.
Justworks is looking for a Director of Engineering, Data Platform and a Senior Business Intelligence Analyst, Marketing.
A friend at Vendelux is seeking a Senior Data Analyst.
PWC is looking for a Fraud Technologist (great title)!
Consumer Reports is hiring a Lead AI / ML Engineer.
Luxottica is looking for a Manager - Consumer Analytics.
Miscellany
Geoff Hinton won the Nobel Prize for his work on Neural Nets! Also the prize in Chemistry went to researchers at DeepMind who worked on computational protein folding. Truly an incredible time to be working at the intersection of tech and data.
Wild story about the Chrysler Building, which is about to be owned by… Cooper Union?
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