NYC Data #71: Strata Week! Hospital for Special Surgery, theSkimm, BlackRock, UncommonGoods, KPMG

Hi friends: It's Strata Week in NYC! I'm very excited for my favorite conference of the year. let me know if you're going: it's always good to have friends at these events! I'm also going to a few NYC Media Lab talks on Friday if anyone else is participating and wants to meet up. 


Junior Role

The Hospital for Special Surgery is looking for a Business Intelligence Developer. 


Mid-Level Roles

theSkimm is looking for a Data Engineer to work with friend-of-the-newsletter Michelle. I'd recommend you check it out: great people, nice product. 

KPMG is looking for an NLP-focused Data Scientist.

BlackRock wants a Data Engineer.

UncommonGoods is hiring a Director of Analytics.


Upcoming Talks/Events

9/25: What we know and don't know about the 2016 election
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
9/28: Learning to Play Games through Reinforcement Learning
9/29: The Bioethics of Genetic Sequencing
9/30: An Introduction to Planning with Reinforcement Learning
10/5: DOES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NEED MORE INNATE MACHINERY? Yann LeCun, Gary Marcus, 5pm, Tishman Auditorium, NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South
10/10: Regulating Online Conversation in the Platform Era
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

- Erik Bernhardsson, one of my favorite local bloggers, had a cute post on word length vs. number size
- Ajay Sharma wrote one of the better posts about getting a job as a data scientist: the east-coast/west-coast analysis was particularly interesting to me
- An interesting project on identifying fake news via NLP


Miscellany

- Fast Forward Labs was acquired by Cloudera: while I don't normally comment on the start-up world, Hilary has been a pillar of the data community in NYC: I'm very happy for her and the (excellent) FFL team!
- Sidewalk Labs is starting a series on innovations that shaped the city. 


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Josh