NYC Data #50: J.Crew, AP, Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Business Insider, Eigenvector of language transitions, Data to measure occupancy, Fusion Media (new!)
Hi friends: Sorry for the no-show on the email last week: was triaging a few too many things and this slipped off the table. But we're back!
Junior Roles
Fusion Media is looking for junior digital analysts. This role nominally reports to me, so you'll be able to yell at me for not sending my email on-time in person.
Mid-Level Roles
The AP is looking for a Data Viz Developer to play with d3!
The Center on Poverty and Social Policy at the Columbia University School of Social Work and the Columbia Population Research Center are seeking a postdoctoral scholar to work with R & STAN to lead the development of survey weights and missing data imputations for the New York City Longitudinal Study of Well-being and the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study.
Our friends at Business Insider are looking for a Data Research Manager to work with survey data primarily, it seems.
J.Crew is hiring a Director of Analytics and a slew of data science-y types.
Upcoming Talks/Events
3/27: Power Plays with Data
3/27: IBM Watson's Conversation Service and x.ai's Conv. Design
4/5: Columbia Data Science Day
4/5: Deep Learning Workshop
4/6: OpenAI Lab for Reinforcement Learning
4/10: How we use MySQL Today
4/10: Warm Bodies: Using Data to Measure Room Level Occupancy
4/18: Techday
5/23: AI in HR
Upcoming Conferences
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
- If you haven't seen Erik Bernhardsson's matrix of "Why we moved from language X to language Y" you really, really should; great idea for research and well executed.
- This is not new, but Etsy's Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems is new to me and terrific.
- yhat did a fun post about classification using Harry Potter characters.
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