NYC Data #80: End of Year Jobs Spectacular, Toxic Meeting Culture, Code Review, Prior Distributions, Starting a Blog, Creative Tech Week

Hi friends: Happy holidays, and apologies for the extended period between emails! I expected December to be slow, but instead there have been a lot of people reaching out, looking to hire, so I've got a much longer-than-normal list. As always, please let me know if you're looking to hire or know about events I don't have listed. And I wish you and yours the best in 2018!


Junior Role

The NeuroLeadership Institute is looking for an Operations Analyst.


Mid-Level Roles

Capital One is looking for a Data Visualization Engineer with a Machine Learning Focus.

IBM is looking for a Data Journalist to help with deriving insights from data.

The National Resources Defense Council is looking for a Director of Analytics.

Scienaptic is looking for Data Engineers and a Data Scientist.

The Atlantic is looking for a Data Engineer and a Data Analyst.

Vroom is looking for a Data Scientist.

Rockstar Games is looking for a Senior Data Analyst.

Merkle is looking for a Data Science Director.

1010 is looking for a BI Developer.


Senior Roles

The Federal Reserve Bank of NY is looking for a Data Visualization Lead.

Aetna is looking for a Principal Data Scientist.


Upcoming Talks/Events (new listings in bold)

1/4: How to Make Data-Informed Product Decisions 
1/10: AI & Society
1/11: How are AI Devices and Intelligent Toys Changing the Way Children Think and Behave?
1/16: Data Scientist & Employer Networking Event
1/24: Neural Networks for NLP: What is a Neural Turing Machine?
1/25: Healthcare Fraud Detection at Aetna
1/31: Cathy O'Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction
2/21: It’s your data, not the viz, that’s boring​


Upcoming Conferences/Multi-Day Events (new listings in bold)

1/22 - 1/23: Infographics and Data Visualization Workshop 
4/29 - 4/30: AI Conf
5/3 - 5/12: Creative Tech Week
5/22 - 5/24: Data Disrupt
6/25 - 6/29: QCon
7/11 - 7/15: Industrial Conference on Data Mining
7/14 - 7/19: International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining
10/25 - 10/26: Deep Learning Summit 
10/25 - 10/26: Deep Learning in Finance 


Good Local Posts

- I actually am a little bummed about this post, as Andrew Gelman punts instead of engaging, but an interesting question on setting up a prior distribution in experimental analysis.
- Wesley Aptekar-Cassels looked into an oft-cited study on code review and found issues with the data/charts that are being used.
- David Robinson wrote about starting a data science blog, which is tremendously good advice, I think. 


Miscellany

- A thoughtful, if sobering, post on the inverse relationship between how much a company needs to care about analysis and their potential for profit.
- Erik Bernhardsson wrote about toxic meeting culture which is food for thought for me, especially around allowing calendar availability be a prioritization filter; if I have one work-related new years resolution, it's around that.


Please pass this email along to any good people you know who might be interested in it. To see previous job listings (many of which are still open!) and blogs, check out the archive.

If you want your job or event or blog post to be included in the next version of this email, or if you have suggestions about how this could be better, please let me know!
Josh