NYC Data #75: DataKind & Civil Liberties, Tumblr, Visitors Blocking GA, Spotify, Scio, Parse.ly, Unilever, Nespresso
Hi friends: lots of new subscribers again this week: welcome! As always, if you know of relevant job postings or events that aren't on here, please let me know!
Junior Roles
Our friends at Parse.ly are hiring a UX Engineer to play with D3.
Unilever is looking for a Data Scientist to work out of NJ.
Tumblr wants a Data Scientist to work on Personalization & Recommendation.
Mid-Level Roles
Nestle Nespresso is looking for a SQL/BI expert.
Spotify wants a Machine Learning Researcher.
Upcoming Talks/Events
10/25: NY Scala at Cognifest, Part I: Spotify
10/26: The Data Privacy & Security Landscape: Looking Forward
10/26: Technology, Media & Democracy: Moving from Problems to Solutions
10/27: Getting Started With Data Science on Spark with Scala
10/28: FACETS
11/1: Forecast water quality at beaches and homes
11/2: Tactical Tech in NYC: Alternative Networks and Practical Privacy
11/8: AI for Manufacturing and Production
11/8: How Data Science Informs Product Development
11/9: New York City Tech Security Conference
11/9: Ethics in Data Science with Ovid Jacob
11/9: Experiments in Style Detection & Transformation w/ NLP
Upcoming Conferences/Multi-Day Events
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
11/3 - 11/5: Cognitive Builder Faire
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
- Wesley Aptekar-Cassels found that 45% of his visitors are blocking Google Analytics(!)
- Neville Li on the outstanding Spotify team wrote about working with Scio
- DataKind has a great rundown on projects to support civil liberties, and they need help (also see the event 11/10-11/12!)
- PyGotham Videos are up
Miscellany
- All-star cast on this AI podcast
- Welcoming our new robot overlords
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Josh