NYC Data #49: Obfuscation Workshop, NY Times, Automated ML, Teach for America, NBCUniversal, GameChanger
Hi friends: this week looks somewhat apocalyptic between the oncoming blizzard and St. Patrick's Day (yes, it's this Friday). Stay safe out there.
Junior Roles
GameChanger (recently acquired by Dick's Sporting Goods) is looking for a data analyst.
Mid-Level Roles
NBCUniversal is looking for a Data Engineer.
Senior Roles
The New York Times is looking for someone to lead their revenue analytics team (and some more junior positions as well).
Teach for America is looking for a director of data and research.
Upcoming Talks/Events
3/14: How to Thrive in the New AI Ecosystem
3/15: Rent, Rain, and Regulations--What Predicts Crime in Portland, Oregon
3/22: Monitoring Services @ Squarespace
3/23: Deploy Spark ML + TensorFlow AI Models from Notebooks
3/25: Synthetic Biology: Learn to Program Life
3/27: Power Plays with Data
4/5: Columbia Data Science Day
4/6: OpenAI Lab for Reinforcement Learning
4/18: Techday
5/23: AI in HR
Upcoming Conferences
3/24: MLConf
3/29 - 3/30: Data Disrupt
4/7 - 4/8: International Workshop on Obfuscation (sounds hilarious, is actually super important)
4/8 - 4/9: NY R Conference
4/12: Domino Data Science Popup
4/28 - 4/30: QuantCon
5/3 - 5/6: Smart Cities NYC
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
8/22 - 8/23: JupyterCon
10/12 - 10/13: Deep Learning Summit
Good Local Posts
- My friend Zach sent me a link to Renate Marold's NLP-based analysis of the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee, with a great set of graphs on topics they've considered over time.
- Cathy O'Neil wrote about the administration's plans to collect more data about crimes committed by immigrants.
- yhat has a thorough guest-post on the state of automated ML.
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.
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Josh