NYC Data #76: NYC Environmental Protection, City Harvest, Bloomberg, Starz, Disliked Languages, Fixing Implicit Bias, How We Describe Things

Hi friends: I hope you had a great Halloween! Conference season is slowing down a bit, but still please send me events you hear about!


Junior Role

The NYC Department of Environmental Protection is looking for an Energy Data Policy Advisor to support the Building & Energy Efficiency Team (Job ID #290639 on NYC's flakey job site).


Mid-Level Roles

City Harvest is looking for a Data Manager to own their food sourcing projection modeling.

Bloomberg wants an AI Research Scientist.

The NPD Group is looking for a Lead Data Scientist. 


Senior Role

Starz is looking for an Executive Director of BI & Data Science.


Upcoming Talks/Events

11/1: Forecast water quality at beaches and homes
11/2: Tactical Tech in NYC: Alternative Networks and Practical Privacy
11/7: NLP with Python - Text Summarization of Yelp Reviews using Neural Networks
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
11/9: Introduction to Neural Networks & Deep Learning for NLP
11/28: NLP with Python - Let's Make a Chatbot with Neural Networks and Keras
12/7: Navigating Random Forests
12/7: Trace Human Trafficking Routes Using Text Analytics


Upcoming Conferences/Multi-Day Events

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
11/27 - 11/30: PyData 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

- Friederike at Fast Forward Labs wrote about the AlphaGo Zero vs AlphaGo match from a more technical perspective (compute power limits, dual vs single neural net) last week
- Relatedly, Johan Edvinsson at Conde Nast wrote an intro to Neural Nets
- David Robinson wrote about the most disliked programming languages


Miscellany

- How Copyright Law Can Fix Artificial Intelligence's Implicit Bias Problem
- A deep dive into how we describe the size of things


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Josh