NYC Data #60: Innovations for Poverty Action, Computer Vision Extracts Data from PDF Charts, Automated Slack Police, Stan Programming, MSNBC, Foursquare

Hi friends: it was a busy week here (it seems like they're all busy weeks recently) but I managed to get outside a little this weekend before the rain Sunday: I hope you did the same! As always, let me know about any good posts, events, or jobs you hear about. 

Junior Roles

Innovations for Poverty Action is looking for a Data Scientist to help them solve problems related to global poverty. 

The Ford Foundation is looking for a Business Intelligence Analyst.


Mid-Level Roles

Andrew Gelman's team at Columbia is looking for a Stan Programmer

NBC News/MSNBC is looking for a Director of Analytics. 


Senior Roles

Foursquare is looking for a new VP of Analytics


Upcoming Talks/Events

6/6: Data Science @ Tumblr
6/6: Tableau Meetup
6/6: Cloud Analytics City Tour
6/7: Databite 100: The DNA Revolution, Media Manipulation, Trade Secrets
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
6/14: Databite 101: Machine Learning, Stats and the City, Data Science Reasoning
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
6/21: Databite 102: Contested Truths, Entropy, Apocalypse, Critical Tech Perspectives
6/22: Machine learning networking event
6/22: Intro to Data Analytics with Oscar's Director of Product
6/22: What Data Analysts and Report Designers Can Learn From Musicians
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​
9/24: Data For Good Exchange
9/28: NYC Media Lab 17


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

- Andrej Ficnar created a slackbot that warns users when they go off topic, which seems like a really cool idea; I like that he trained off off reddit data.
- A team at Bloomberg created a computer vision system to extract values from charts in a PDF! (not open source though).
- If you haven't seen Selfie City yet, out of Lev Manovich's lab, you really should check it out. 


Miscellany

- Andrew Gelman announced StanCon, though it's not local. 
- Mary Meeker gave her annual, epic internet trends presentation. 
- RIP Google emoji blobs


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Josh