NYC Data #66: Penguin/Random House, Model Interpretability, Macy's, KPMG, Kernel Regression, Complex

Hi friends: apologies for the unannounced gap in emails! We're well into the summer lull right now: if you know of events or jobs, let me know. This email will be a little spotty until autumn unless I hear about a bunch of positions to post.


Junior Roles

Movable Ink is looking for a Data Scientist.

Penguin/Random House is looking for a Junior Data Scientist.

Macy's is looking for a Data Scientist.


Mid-Level Roles

Complex is looking for a Director of Business Intelligence.

KPMG is looking for lots of Data Engineers of all levels


Upcoming Talks/Events

8/8: Machine Learning: Algorithms & Applications
8/9: AI & Society
8/9: Mapping Dada: Using Link Analysis to Study Historic Influence
8/10: Design and Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms
8/15: How to Process 50 Billion Monthly Messages
8/17: The Why & How of Enterprise Analytics
8/17: Manufacturing Truth: Machine Learning and Bias
8/23: Data Science in Practice: Importing and Visualizing Facebook Data Using Graphs
8/23: AI and Medicine With HealthTech Women
8/24: Content Analytics with Kenny Ning, Spotify
8/30: Organizing Text Data in a Meaningful and Innovative Way
9/14: How to Build Your Recommender System with Kickstarter
9/24: Data For Good Exchange
9/6: Machine Learning and Interpretability
9/28: NYC Media Lab 17
10/19: Leadership in Big Data and Analytics Forum


Upcoming Conferences/Multi-Day Events

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
10/23 - 10/24: Global Artificial Intelligence Conference 
10/25 - 11/1: Build a Bot: Artificial Intelligence and Bots for News
10/25 - 10/27: Human Capital Analytics
10/29 - 11/2: Predictive Analytics World for Business
11/2 - 11/3: Statistical Learning and Data Mining 
11/14 - 11/17: PLOTCON NYC
12/5 - 12/6: The AI Summit
12/6 - 12/7: AI & Data Science in Capital Markets
12/11 - 12/12: Chief Data Officer Summit
12/11 - 12/12: Big Data & Analytics for Marketing Summit
5/22/18 - 5/24/18: Data Disrupt
6/25/18 - 6/29/18: QCon
7/11/18 - 7/15/18: Industrial Conference on Data Mining
7/14/18 - 7/19/18: International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
10/25/18 - 10/26/18: Deep Learning Summit 
10/25/18 - 10/26/18: Deep Learning in Finance 


Good Local Posts

- Manny Moss wrote about model interpretability for Fast Forward Labs, in support of a prototype.
- Andrew Gelman put together a cool reading list on the philosophy of statistics.
- Walker wrote a nifty post on kernel regression with a great gif.


Miscellany
- PyTorch released version 2.0.
- Cathy O'Neil wrote about big data and health insurance. 


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