NYC Data #67: UNICEF, Mapbox, Vox, MSKCC, NYPD, Mapping Wikipedia, Sidewalk Labs, Foursquare's Algorithm
Hi friends: A flood of good job opportunities came in this week, so sending this out earlier than expected!
Junior Roles
Mapbox is looking for a remote Data Engineer: likely involves some time commuting to their DC office.
Rockstar Games is looking for a Data Analyst.
The NYPD is looking for a Crime Analyst (search for Job ID 286323).
Mid-Level Roles
UNICEF is looking for a Data Visualization Expert.
Vox is looking for a Director of Product Analytics.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering is looking for a Data Scientist.
Sidewalk Labs is looking for a Software Engineer.
Upcoming Talks/Events
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
10/17: New York Tech Innovates for Sustainability
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
10/30 - 10/31: DataEngConf
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
- Emily Robinson has a nice post on giving her first data science talk.
- More great stuff from Fast Forward Labs: this time Sepand writing about mapping wikipedia.
- Foursquare wrote about changing search algorithms: interesting though difficult for me to follow.
Miscellany
- Amazing interactive here: What's so hard about histograms?
- Dan Luu (whose blog is one of my favorites) has his own list of programming blogs.
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