NYC Data #43: The last few days, Giphy, EXL, Undertone, Japanese births, NYC & Chicago Taxis, SVM
Hi friends: I'm sure a lot of you, like me, are very upset about the first week of the Trump Presidency. I'm hoping to find ways beyond marching that we, as data workers in NYC, can use our particular skills to help refugees and others impacted by the most recent Presidential Memoranda. I'll post organizations and initiatives as I learn about them: please let me know if you are participating in any and need help.
Mid-Level Roles
Eric at Giphy sends along to following:
We’re looking for a Data Analyst to join our team as the first! This person will provide insight support across all teams including product and engineering which power both internal and external products like Giphy.com, GIPHY mobile apps, several major, native Social Media integrations, thousands of indie developer apps, our own API and more. Our public API services billions of requests and traffics many petabytes of media per month.
Apply by sending your resume with the title 'Data Analyst' to eric@giphy.com
EXL is looking for an analyst/consultant to split time between Jersey City & Mexico: apply here.
Undertone, an ad tech company, is looking for a data analyst to do SQL work: apple here.
Upcoming Talks/Events
1/30: The Fundamentals of Deep Learning, with Applications
1/30: The Data Scientist's Toolkit
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
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
- Andrew Gelman points us to an older post by Randal Olson about a significant drop in Japanese births due to superstition, which I found really interesting
- Todd Schneider did a follow-up to his post on NYC taxi data where he looked at Chicago
- Yhat re-wrote a nice old post on Support Vector Machines
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Josh