NYC Data #333: Airbnb Interventions, The FBI (!), YAML & ML, HelloFresh, OpenAsset, Disney, The Best Neighborhoods for Pie in NYC
Also, more jobs and cool events.
Hi friends: amazingly this is the next-to-last NYC Data email for 2024. So get your reading in before time is out! Relatedly: Call for Proposals for NYC Open Data Week is only up for 9 more days!
As always, help me keep this space up-to-date: please send me posts, events, and job openings. [image credit: Billie Grace Ward]
Good Local Posts
A great post on the Airbnb tech blog about segmenting their users and using the results to target interventions. Let the record show that this terrific data work is productionized via the humble CASE WHEN SQL Query ❤️.
Ethan Rosenthal put a lot of thought into why we can’t separate YAML from ML. A really good articulation about why we are all YAML developers now.
I just discovered that the Times Square Alliance releases data on a large number of the district's key indicators. Really fun data here: Pedestrian traffic is over 200k people / day (and up 30% y/y)!
Upcoming In-Person Events (new listings in bold)
12/10: Unstructured Data in LLMs
12/10: Graphs and Vectors in SurrealDB: Part 2
12/11: Unwrapping Data Streams with Lenses.io and Stream
12/11: AI Agents in the enterprise
12/11 - 12/12: AI Summit New York 2024
12/12: AI Meetup (December): GenAI, LLMs, and RAG
12/18: AI-Python For a Kinder New York City
Open Roles
Squarespace is hiring for several data roles, including a Manager, Marketing Channel Analytics and Operations, a Marketing Analyst, a Pricing Analyst, and a Customer Operations Data Analyst.
HelloFresh is looking for an Associate Director, Data Science.
OpenAsset is hiring a Staff Software Engineer - AI/ML.
Thomson Reuters is seeking a Applied Scientist, IR/NLP.
The FBI is looking for Special Agents with Advanced Data & Intelligence Expertise. (!)
Disney is hiring a Lead Data Analyst.
Miscellany
The Best Neighborhoods for Pie in NYC, according to StreetEasy.
Ethan Hein wrote a great piece about the history of Stormy Monday. Ending up on his blog always makes me want to really study music theory!
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