NYC Data #64: Recommender Systems at Amazon, Venmo, Rent the Runway, Probabilistic Programming, Squarespace, Dotdash, Spring, SNAP Interactive

Hi friends: I hope you're surviving the heat. As always, let me know if you have recommendations of posts, jobs or events for me to include. Also, this is the 2^6th edition of the NYC Data newsletter! I'm very excited to be adding another bit to the register next week. 


Junior Roles

Squarespace is looking for a Data Analyst: I know a few people there who have really liked it. They also may have the nicest offices I've ever seen.

Spring is looking for a Data Scientist.

Dotdash is looking for a Junior Data Scientist to work on NLP.

Venmo (I mean, really, Paypal) is looking for a Data Engineer.


Mid-Level Roles

Rent the Runway is looking for a Senior Manager, Research and Consumer Insights.

SNAP Interactive is hiring a Data Scientist.


Upcoming Talks/Events

7/11: Predictive State Smoothing (PRESS): Scalable non-parametric regression
7/11: Pitch the City - Driverless Future Challenge
7/11: Quant-Algos Careers & Learning
7/13: Machine Learning at Spotify
7/17: Workshop: Intro to Data Visualization Using D3.js
7/18: Livestream: How to think about Bayesian, frequentist, and likelihoodist methods
7/19: TimescaleDB and Prometheus
7/19: Algorithms @ Betterment (not open to cis-men, I believe)
7/22: STAN Workshop
8/3: Data Analytics for PM's Info Session
8/8: Machine Learning: Algorithms & Applications
8/9: AI & Society
8/23: Data Science in Practice: Importing and Visualizing Facebook Data Using Graphs
8/23: AI and Medicine With HealthTech Women
9/24: Data For Good Exchange
9/28: NYC Media Lab 17


Upcoming Conferences/Multi-Day Events

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
10/23 - 10/24: GraphConnect
10/25 - 11/1: Build a Bot: Artificial Intelligence and Bots for News
10/25 - 10/27: Human Capital Analytics
11/2 - 11/3: Statistical Learning and Data Mining 
11/14 - 11/17: PLOTCON NYC
12/5 - 12/6: The AI Summit
10/25/18 - 10/26/18: Deep Learning Summit 
10/25/18 - 10/26/18: Deep Learning in Finance 


Good Local Posts

- The Tow Center put out a long analysis of computational campaign coverage in 2016. I found some of the conclusions a little hard to swallow, including the in-sample error rate for their algorithm (when out of sample error was 70% higher), but there's lots of good stuff here.
- Mike Williams of Fast Forward Labs did a gentle intro to probabilistic programming.   
- Jeremy Stanley wrote about some of the problem set for the data science team at Instacart, with some snazzy visualizations.  


Miscellany

- I loved this piece on recommender systems at Amazon: accessible and thoughtful. I'm hoping to write up my perspectives.
- I liked the anti-patterns in this piece on evaluating data products a lot.


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