NYC Data #347: FBI, HealthBench, Calm, Oscar, 4 Jobs of Prioritization, The MTA, NYC's Tech Sector
Plus, all the Time Series Forecasting Techniques
Hi friends, apologies for the recent absence. I’m back and ready for summer!
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Good Local Posts
Center for an Urban Future released a report on New York City's tech sector. I take the findings with a grain of salt (What counts as a ‘well‑paying job’ isn’t defined), but even then it’s wild to see some of the numbers. Some of the old timers reference the competition for engineers in NYC in 2010-2014, which I remember really well: in retrospect I think it was a secondary effect of the end of wage collusion.
OpenAI released HealthBench, an evaluation for AI systems and human health: the team included several NYC-area contributors. While new AI benchmarks get released every week, this one was really interesting to me because the authors claim ‘physicians’ responses no longer outperform the newer models’ responses! Of course, graded by an LLM 🙃. Notebook behind the analysis here.
This post by Juan Orduz of PyMC Labs is an awesome overview of time-series forecasting techniques, especially as they relate to retail demand. Highly recommended!
Upcoming In-Person Events (new listings in bold)
5/21: Global GRC, Data Privacy & Cyber Security ConfEx
5/28 - 5/30: Lifetime Data Science Conference
5/29 Manhattanhenge!
6/2 - 6/8: NY Tech Week
6/3: Pulse NYC
6/5: Generative AI Summit
9/18: Data Management Summit
Open Roles
Squarespace is hiring a Marketing Analyst, a Data Scientist, and especially Data Platform Engineers.
Calm is looking for a Growth Marketing Analytics Lead.
Oscar is seeking a Senior Manager, Data Science.
The FBI is looking for Special Agents with a Data Science focus. (!)
The MTA is hiring a Senior Equal Opportunity Analyst.
Integral is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer.
Miscellany
A co-worker shared John Cutler’s piece on the 4 jobs of ‘prioritization’ and it has really stuck with me. I think it’s a very useful framework.
I found this obituary of Barry Benepe, the man behind NYC’s Greenmarkets, really inspiring. There are so many ways to make the City a better place!
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