NYC Data #364: Experimenter-Defined Segmentation, EV vs Gas Car Analysis, AI Company Database, Kubetorch, Women in AI, Versant, The Most Popular Dog Breeds in NYC
Also, so many Squarespace Data jobs!
Hi friends, I’m back in NYC after my first work trip in a bit. I always find the view of NYC from the air to be inspiring: I didn’t have a view quite as expansive as this image but even the poor views are pretty good. It’s something I love about living here.
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Good Local Posts
Athena Chang and Li Zhang of Etsy wrote about Experimenter-Defined Segmentations, where Etsy’s pipeline dynamically generates needed segments at runtime. Lots of great diagrams to illustrate how the system works. Inspirational and highly recommended!
Epoch AI released a dataset cataloging AI companies, with “data on revenue, funding, staff, and compute for many of the key players in frontier AI”. I expect this will be a very useful resource: they include a set of their own resources as well.
Runhouse announced the launch of Kubetorch, a programmatic Python interface for Kubernetes. The company just raised their seed round as well: as someone who hears lots of k8s complaints, I’m very excited to see where this project goes!
Upcoming In-Person Events (new listings in bold)
10/6 - 10/12: AI Week New York
10/14: Women in AI Tech Panel
10/14 - 10/15: Spatial Data Science Conference
10/22: Introduction to Analysis of Public Survey Data
11/13: Data + AI World Tour
11/13: New York Data Protection & Security Summit
11/17 - 11/18: AI Impact Summit
Open Roles
Squarespace is hiring for almost a dozen data roles in NYC at the moment, including:
Friends at Versant Media are seeking a Lead Data Scientist (I’m told this can be an NYC role despite being listed elsewhere).
Miscellany
StreetEasy looked at active dog licenses with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to help determine The 10 Best Neighborhoods for Dog Lovers in NYC. They claim ‘Shih Tzus are the No. 1 breed in NYC right now’ which seems plausible.
The New York Times put together a dynamic assessment of how much it costs to use an EV vs gas car around the US. NYC is one of the places where EVs are least compelling, which jibes with the analysis I did when I was in the market.
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