NYC Data #42: Shutterstock, Amazon, MSG, Roku, selling data, color theory, stable cooperation
Hi friends: I've met up with a few of you in person recently, thanks for the kind words about this letter! As always, if there are particular things you'd like more or less of, please let me know.
Junior Role
Amazon is looking for a junior software engineer to work on analytics for their Ad Platform team. Apply here.
Mid-Level Roles
My friends at Shutterstock reached out to say they have a host of roles to fill, including a director of experiments and testing and two data analysts. The team there is really strong and friendly, I'd encourage you to apply if you're interested in learning from some smart people.
Roku is looking for a Data Scientist. Apply here.
Madison Square Garden is looking for a director of Consumer Data Analysis. Apply here.
Upcoming Talks/Events
1/24: Sensors, IoT, Wearables, and Data Everywhere
1/30: The Fundamentals of Deep Learning, with Applications
1/31: Deep Dive into Dask with Matthew Rocklin @Uber
2/2: Analytics for contingent workforce and high-volume roles assessment & selection
2/6: Telling Compelling Stories with Data
4/18: Techday
Upcoming Conferences
1/23: Workshop on Work, Labor, and Automation
2/2: DataMoney
3/24: MLConf
3/7 - 3/8: AMP Conf (not data-specific, but I'll be there)
4/8 - 4/9: NY R Conference
4/12: Domino Data Science Popup
4/28 - 4/30: QuantCon
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
- Matt Turck has a thoughtful post out about the details of selling data to Wall Street
- Rune Madsen wrote a really fascinating piece on the history of color theory
- MS Research in NYC did a neat experiment on stable cooperation in non-infinitely repeated games (more game theory than data: it was a slow week in the NYC data content mines)
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