NYC Data #330: NYC Ballot Initiatives, ML for Content Moderation, Runway, CNN, Colgate, Prediction Markets
Hi friends: an early Happy Halloween to you all! IMO this is the (only?) holiday that is more fun in NYC than anywhere else. It also kicks off a busy two weeks: by the time I send my next letter we’ll be on the other side of the NYC Marathon and the election as well.
As always, help me keep this space up-to-date: please send me posts, events, and job openings. [image credit: Karen Rubin]
Good Local Posts
Speaking of the election: lots of interesting data analysis focused on it! I’ve mostly been following along with Nate Silver’s newsletter, and Nate Cohn at The Upshot has had a lot of great insight as well.
David Azcona of Etsy wrote about using ML for Content Moderation across both text and images.
Andrew Gelman has an in-depth summary on a paper about prediction markets and some thoughts on why they aren’t more accepted or more popular.
Upcoming In-Person Events (new listings in bold)
10/27: NYC Visual AI Hackathon
10/30: AI-Python For a Kinder New York City
11/16: R-Ladies NYC November Book Club
11/19 - 11/20: Urban Tech Summit
11/20: GIS Day
11/20: New York dbt Meetup
Open Roles
Squarespace is hiring a Manager, Marketing Channel Analytics & Operations and a Product Insights Analyst.
Friends at CNN are looking for an Analyst to focus on Testing/Experimentation.
The New York Times is hiring a Graphics Multimedia Editor- Cartography, which honestly sounds like a dream job for someone.
Friends at Runway are looking for a Director of Machine Learning, Dataset Engineering.
Genpact is seeking a Senior Manager, Master Data Management.
Colgate-Palmolive is hiring Analytics Engineers.
Miscellany
The Election is coming up! NYC’s Poll Site Locator is handy if you’ve moved recently, and you can look at a sample ballot at Vote411. There are 6 (six!) ballot measures on the ballot in NYC: the first one is a statewide one about abortion. You can read about the other five here: FWIW, I’m voting ‘No’ on 3-6, and am undecided on #2 (will make up my mind this weekend).
Really interesting deep-dive in The Upshot about Minimum Parking Mandates in NYC and some practical considerations around them.
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