NYC Data #59: NYT Crossword Analysis, Data Viz at Condé Nast, Forecasting Conversion Rates, Sales at Fast Forward Labs, CUNY Institutional Research, Zoomable Flood Map, US Tax Brackets, NY Life, Data Journalism Standards

Hi friends: I put a whole bunch of new events in the list below: we have a busy few weeks ahead of us! As always, please let me know if you have an event, job, or post you'd like me to share.


Junior Roles

Condé Nast is looking for a data viz engineer, with Java/DB knowledge thrown in.

CUNY is looking for a statistical analyst to help them with institutional research as part of the Center for College Effectiveness


Senior Roles

New York Life is looking for a director of data science. 

Fast Forward Labs is looking for a sales lead (I don't normally post sales jobs, but since FF is the archetypal company I think a lot of subscribers would be interested in, I'm making an exception!).


Upcoming Talks/Events

6/1: PyGotham Proposal Brainstorming
6/2: MLTrain: TensorFlow, Keras: Intro and Advanced Deep Learning Apps
6/6: Data Science @ Tumblr
6/6: Tableau Meetup
6/6: Cloud Analytics City Tour
6/6: Transactional Streaming: If You Can Compute It, You Can Probably Stream It
6/8: Search-Driven Analytics & BI
6/14: Leveraging Google Genomics​
6/14: The Cocktail Party Effect - An Intro to Independent Component Analysis
6/15: Internet Society Community Forum
6/15: Tomorrow's Data & Analytics in Retail & Healthcare
6/15: Webinar - Machine Learning Lab Introductory Meetup
6/20: The Emergence of the Elastic SQL Database
6/22: Machine learning networking event
6/22: Intro to Data Analytics with Oscar's Director of Product
6/23: NBCUniversal Social Hack
6/26: Papers We Love - QCon NYC Edition 
6/27: Machine learning models with Redis & Spark
6/27: NYC Tableau Meetup
6/27: Bayesian Deep Learning: Dealing with Uncertainty and Non-Stationarity
6/28: Challenging Web-Scale Graph Analytics with Apache Spark
6/29: Deploy Spark ML, Scikit-Learn, and TensorFlow Models from Notebook to Production​


Upcoming Conferences/Multi-Day Events

6/14: Domino Data Science Pop-Up
6/15 - 6/16: Collective Intelligence Conference
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
10/6 - 10/8: PyGotham
10/12 - 10/13: Deep Learning Summit
11/14 - 11/17: PLOTCON NYC


Good Local Posts

- Erik Bernhardsson wrote a terrific post about calculating conversion rates for cohorts, and forecasting future rates using a Kaplan-Meier estimator. You should read it.
- Rachel Kogan did a really great analysis of the NY Times crossword puzzle, including HBO references and whether the NYT or the OED got the word first.
- The Furman Center at NYU put together a great, zoomable flood map of the US.
- Andrew Gelman is asking for higher standards in data journalism. 


Miscellany

- A friend sends along that the City of Detroit is looking for Data Scientists.
- I liked this visualization of US tax brackets over time. Andrew Gelman and Mike Bostock think there's room to improve.


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