NYC Data #40: Enigma, Fusion Media, Bots & Gender, Media-Tech-Politics, Parking, New Conferences
Hi friends: Happy New Year! I hope you were able to take some time off over the last couple of weeks. We're still in the beginning of the year lull in terms of job postings and events, so I updated the conference schedule: let me know if you hear about other upcoming conferences in the city, please!
Junior Role
Enigma, a startup dedicating to centralizing and linking data sources for governments and other organizations, is looking for two junior data engineers. They supply the data to do some really cool projects, like this awesome interactive piece on the oil boom and bust in the Dakotas. Learn more and apply here.
Mid-Level Role
Just a reminder: I am hiring a data product person to work with me at Fusion Media Group: we work with a bunch of websites you might have heard of (Gizmodo, The Onion, Deadspin, Jezebel, Fusion & more) and I need someone to help me manage the building of our data products, from BI tools to recommendation systems. Posting is here.
Upcoming Talks/Events
1/10: Deploy Spark ML + TensorFlow AI Models from Notebooks
1/12: AI in Retail
1//19: January D3 meetup
Upcoming Conferences
1/21: StanCon
1/23: Workshop on Work, Labor, and Automation
2/2: DataMoney
3/24: MLConf
4/12: Domino Data Science Popup
6/26 - 6/29: O'Reilly AI Conference
6/27 - 6/28: Sentiment Analysis Symposium
7/8 - 7/11: Mass Data Analysis
7/12 - 7/16: International Conference on Data Mining
7/15 - 7/20: International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
10/12 - 10/13: Deep Learning Summit
Good Local Posts
- Data & Society has a host of essays up about Media, Tech & Politics. Gilad's piece is the most overtly technical
- Walker Harrison does a neat thought experiment and simulations around parking policy
- Jacqueline Feldman writes convincingly about AI bot personality and gender
Please pass this email along to any good people you know who might be interested in it. To see previous job listings (many of which are still open!) and blogs, check out the archive.
If you want your job or event or blog post to be included in the next version of this email, or if you have suggestions about how this could be better, please let me know!
Josh