NYC Data #74: Cracking Anonymized Data, NYC Chief Analytics Officer, Work with Me! Python & Elasticsearch, Whistle Sports, MLB

Hi friends: I hope at least a few of you were able to enjoy Open House NY this weekend. Also, thanks to everyone who reached out with job openings, and thanks to the one subscriber who told me that he got a job off of this newsletter this week! I know it's happened a few times, but it's always a thrill to get the note when it happens. 


Junior Role

My team at Fusion/Univision is looking for an analyst to help with reporting & A/B testing on the Spanish-language side, primarily. 


Mid-Level Roles

Whistle Sports is looking for someone to manage their Digital Marketing Analytics (also a Social Media Analyst).

MLB Advanced Media is looking for Data Scientists. 


Senior Role

The Mayor's Office is looking for a Chief Analytics Officer.


Upcoming Talks/Events

10/17: New York Tech Innovates for Sustainability
10/17: Learn how to use NYC Open Data 
10/19: Leadership in Big Data and Analytics Forum
10/19: The People's Roadmap; future of NYC's #civictech & #opendata
10/24: De-biasing Analytics: Let's live a life of algorithmic responsibility
10/26: The Data Privacy & Security Landscape: Looking Forward
11/1: Forecast water quality at beaches and homes
11/8: AI for Manufacturing and Production
11/8: How Data Science Informs Product Development 
11/9: New York City Tech Security Conference


Upcoming Conferences/Multi-Day Events

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
10/30 - 10/31: Future Labs AI Summit
11/2 - 11/3: Statistical Learning and Data Mining 
11/10 - 11/12: Democratic Freedom DataDive
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
4/29/18 - 4/30/18: AI Conf
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

- Wired followed local data luminary Gilad Lotan as he cracked anonymized data
- David Robinson of Stack Overflow is back with a new piece on the growth of R
- Joe Cabrera gave a PyGotham talk on using elasticsearch with python that I liked
- Ozzie Liu of Casper worked with DataKind to put together a map of Lawful Permanent Residents


Miscellany

- There's a new Tech, Media & Democracy partnership involving universities in the city
- Elliptic Curve Cryptography for Beginners


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Josh