NYC Data #61: UNICEF, Betterment, Mapping Gentrification, NYC Planning Labs, NY District Attorney, NYU, Updater,

Hi friends: back again this week with some new jobs and posts.


Junior Roles

The New York District Attorney is looking for a Data Analyst to model crime trends in Manhattan.

NYU is looking for a Business Analyst to predict future enrollment and classroom utilization.


Mid-Level Roles

Updater is looking for a Director of Business Intelligence.

UNICEF is looking for a contractor to help with a visualization project on child marriage. 


Senior Roles

Betterment is looking for a Head of Analytics (and also a Marketing Analyst).


Upcoming Talks/Events

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

6/26 - 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

- The amazing Chris Whong is working on the new NYC Planning Labs, which launched their site last week. 
- Kaiser Fung announced a new data-science education endeavor. 
- A paper out of NYU & FB where two Neural Networks basically play 20 questions.


Miscellany

- GovTech had an interesting post on the mapping gentrification, which linked to the ANHD's interesting Displacement Alert Project Map; I was amazed to see my neighborhood (Yorkville) so heavily represented.
- Cooling a room with 2 liters of ice: a calculation.


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