NYC Data #55: ITP Spring Show, Parson's D&T Thesis Show, Brooklyn Income & Tree Size, Modeling Spelling Correction at Etsy
Hi friends, happy May Day! And have a happy Cinco de Mayo and Star Wars day this week, while we're at it. Some great pieces written locally this last week: please let me know as you see (or write!) more.
Junior Roles
Thomson Reuters is looking for a Data Integrity Analyst.
Blue Apron is looking for a Business Insights Analyst.
Mid-Level Roles
Amazon's looking for a Data Scientist to help with forecasting (along with a few other data roles).
Upcoming Talks/Events
5/1: The Power of Citizen Science
5/1: Chatbot Strategies, Use Cases & Success Stories
5/2: Blue Apron: Looker and Big Query Demo
5/2: Analyzing Usage Patterns of NYC Open Data
5/3: 20 most used R packages
5/8: DataJam with NYC’s Department of City Planning
5/15: The Future of Farming with AI: Truly Organic at Scale
5/15: Forecasting Growth with Semiparametric Bayesian Models
5/23: AI in HR
5/23: Analyzing the global trade network
5/23: Using MongoDB at Radar
6/14: Leveraging Google Genomics
Upcoming Conferences/Multi-Day Events
5/3 - 5/6: Smart Cities NYC
5/11 - 5/19: Parson's MFA DT Show
5/15 - 5/17: Data Summit
5/17 - 5/18: ITP Spring Show
5/22 - 5/23: Couchbase Connect
6/14: Domino Data Science Pop-Up
6/26 - 6/28: QCon
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
9/25 - 9/28: Strata + Hadoop
10/2 - 10/4: Velocity
10/12 - 10/13: Deep Learning Summit
11/14 - 11/17: PLOTCON NYC
Good Local Posts
- Friend-of-the-newsletter Walker Harrison looked at the relationship between tree size and income in Brooklyn neighborhoods, which I admit isn't the first way I'd approach the analysis but had interesting results
- Mohit Nayyar had a fantastic piece about modeling spelling correction for search at Etsy
- If you haven't seen David Robinson's analysis of 100,000 English language plots, you really should
- NYMediaLab put all the panel's from last week's 'Machines + Media' conference on YouTube
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Josh