NYC Data #45: More volunteer opportunities, Data & Society, Probablistic programming, Birchbox, Vision Zero
Hi friends: a couple more places to find out about volunteer opportunities came in a little late for the last email:
- Tech Resistance will email you updates on what people are doing in the industry and list future opportunities to get involved
- The folks at Indivisible Guide are looking for some volunteers with an analytics background, especially folks with experience with Action Network and similar digital organizing tools. They're also looking for lead wordpress developers and people who are good at social media and the interwebs, as well as organizers and researchers more broadly. If you're interested in learning more and getting involved, email matt@indivisibleguide.com
Junior Role
Squarespace is looking for a data scientist: I know a few people who have started over there recently and who are pretty happy with the experience.
Mid-Level Roles
Birchbox is looking for a director of data science to work with Spark, Hive & Pig, among other things.
Data & Society is looking for a labor engagement lead and an accountability engagement lead.
The Giphy role I mentioned two letters ago is now posted, if email isn't your thing.
Upcoming Talks/Events
2/13: Machine(s) Learning with Neural Networks
2/13: D3.js Meetup
2/13: A Tour of Metadata Management
2/15: Age of Algorithms: Data, Democracy and the News (with Cathy O'Neil)
2/15: Big Data Infrastructure: Micro-Services , Analytics and Containers
2/16: The Visualization of Deaths in The New York Times
2/16: The Future of Digital Rights Is A Library Card
2/21: Bayesian hierarchical survival-type model for Dengue infection
2/22: Formulas and Recipes in R
2/25: Natural Language Processing and Text Mining in Python
2/28: Predictability and other Predicaments in Machine Learning Applications
3/9: Spotify presents Machine Learning & Big Data for Music Discovery
3/27: Power Plays with Data
4/18: Techday
Upcoming Conferences
3/4: NYC School of Data
3/24: MLConf
3/7 - 3/8: AMP Conf (not data-specific, but I'll be there)
3/29 - 3/30: Data Disrupt
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
- Fast Forward Labs put out a terrific prototype of a NYC real estate app to show the power of probabilistic programming.
- A nice piece in Governing about the data behind Vision Zero in NYC and how it's contributed to a 24% drop in traffic fatalities in 3 years.
- This piece Andrew Gelman about a researcher whose papers have been riddled with errors, is mostly funny if you imagine Gelman slightly losing his mind while writing it.
Appreciating Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling passed away last week: former students of mine know I really admired his work, and I really liked this post by Robert Kosara about him and how important he was to the data visualization world.
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