NYC Data #70: WNYC, SEIU, Foot Locker, Murders in Brazil, Medidata, S&P, AI & Fair Use, Predicting NYC Coffeeshops

Hi friends: a couple interesting roles this week. Also, an interesting, unposted event: Yann LeCun and Gary Marcus debating about AI at NYU: no reserved seating, just walk and grabs seats if they are available: details listed in upcoming talks/events.


Junior Role

The Service Employees International Union is looking for a Data Analyst.

WNYC is looking for a Data Analyst.


Mid-Level Role

Foot Locker is looking for a Data Scientist.


Senior Role

Medidata is looking for a VP of Product in Data and Analytics.

S&P is looking for a Chief Data Scientist.


Upcoming Talks/Events

9/14: How to Build Your Recommender System with Kickstarter
9/17: Big Data & You
9/18: Marketing technologies, customer data and analytics
9/19: MariaDB Roadshow
9/19: From SQL to NoSQL: Structured Querying in JSON
9/19: Building Enterprise Data Infrastructure with WeWork
9/19: NJ-NY Tableau Software User Group
9/20: Data, Ethics, & Decisionmaking Series: Using Data for Good
9/21: Machine Learning: Core techniques and applications in Finance
9/23: NYC 311 Data Jam
9/24: Data For Good Exchange
9/25: Data Visualization with D3.js by Kevin Quealy
9/25: Statistics and Sonic Screams: Analyzing Data from 34,000 Comic Books
9/27: The Fundamentals of Deep Learning, with Applications
9/27: Demystifying Data Science
9/28: NYC Media Lab 17
9/28: Basic Python for Data Science: A Dataset of Ice and Fire
10/5: DOES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NEED MORE INNATE MACHINERY? Yann LeCun, Gary Marcus, 5pm, Tishman Auditorium, NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South
10/12: Alberto Cairo: Visual Trumpery
10/17: New York Tech Innovates for Sustainability
10/19: Leadership in Big Data and Analytics Forum
11/8: AI for Manufacturing and Production


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

- Cathy O'Neill wrote about data and democracy in Bloomberg
- DataKind had a little writeup about using Tableau
- Topos wrote a very cool post about predicting the location of coffeeshops in NYC
- Anne Griffin wrote about preparing for our AI future

Miscellany

- Artificial Intelligence's Fair Use Crisis
- Max Galka has a crazy map on murders in Brazil; also it appears the US & Russia have almost the same number as each other, which I thought was interesting


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Josh