NYC Data #62: Engineering Image Quality Features, Viacom, Estée Lauder, Einstein College of Medicine, Enigma, Clustering NYC neighborhoods, Spaces vs Tabs, Tumblr
Hi friends: I hope you enjoyed Pride Week! We're back again this week with some new jobs and posts.
Junior Roles
Tumblr is looking for a Data Scientist focussing on Personalization & Recommendation.
The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is looking for an R developer to work on stem cell research.
Mid-Level Roles
Frequent poster Enigma is looking for a Data Engineer and a Data Scientist.
Estée Lauder is looking for a Director of Business Intelligence & Analytics.
Senior Roles
Viacom is looking for an SVP for Data Strategy.
Upcoming Talks/Events
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
6/27: High Performance TensorFlow and Spark
6/28: Challenging Web-Scale Graph Analytics with Apache Spark
6/29: Deploy Spark ML, Scikit-Learn, and TensorFlow Models from Notebook to Production
7/7: Open Government Data and Why You Should Care
7/10: Fine Grained Visual Category Recognition and Perceptual Embedding
7/13: Machine Learning at Spotify
7/22: STAN Workshop
8/9: AI & Society
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
- Richard Knoche wrote a terrific post on engineering features to assess image quality.
- Topos did a nifty post on clustering NYC neighborhoods into new boros, which are basically concentric rings.
- David Robinson wrote up some results from a Stack Overflow survey, Prof Gelman responded.
Miscellany
- The Stanford Open Policing Project looks really interesting.
- Portraits of imaginary people generated with GANs.
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