NYC Data #69: GrubHub, The Growth of Python, Reuters, Merlin, Game of Thrones Names, Shutterstock, LearnVest

Hi friends: summer is over and conference season is beginning! I'm excited for Strata-Hadoop at the end of this month, and PyGotham in early October (where I'll be speaking). Let me know if you hear of other events/conferences that aren't on my list! 


Junior Role

LearnVest is looking for Data Engineers and a few other data roles.


Mid-Level Role

Shutterstock is looking for a Data Engineer.

Reuters is looking for a second Data Scientist in NYC to work on machine learning and personalization on the Reuters site. 

The founder of Merlin reached out with an unlisted position: they're looking for their first Data Scientist. They'd like someone with knowledge of different analytics methods, including linear regression, logistic regression, CART, clustering, and data visualization. Apply by sending a resume and a targeted cover letter to borja@merlinjobs.com.


Senior Role

GrubHub wants a Lead NLP Data Scientist. 


Upcoming Talks/Events

9/8: Scientific Controveries No. 12: Artificial Intelligence
9/12: Three Tragic Tales of Data Loss & How We Can Learn From Them
9/14: How to Build Your Recommender System with Kickstarter
9/18: Marketing technologies, customer data and analytics
9/19: MariaDB Roadshow
9/19: From SQL to NoSQL: Structured Querying in JSON
9/23: NYC 311 Data Jam
9/24: Data For Good Exchange
9/25: Data Visualization with D3.js by Kevin Quealy
9/28: NYC Media Lab 17
9/28: Basic Python for Data Science: A Dataset of Ice and Fire
10/17: New York Tech Innovates for Sustainability
10/19: Leadership in Big Data and Analytics Forum


Upcoming Conferences/Multi-Day Events

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
10/26 - 10/27: Building Data Science Summit
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

- David Robinson continued his string of excellent posts, this time on the explosive growth of Python.
- Charles Masson of Datadog put together an excellent summary of types of distances with a nice interactive.
- Andrew Gelman had a quick hit about data as a driver of local decision making that resonated with me. 

Miscellany

- 7 ways to view correlation
- I goofed around with some Game of Thrones name data on Twitter


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Josh