EDA: Happy New Year!
Hi Folks,
Happy New Year! Looking back at 2022, we have a lot to be thankful for. As some of you may know, Justin assiduously tracks his New Year’s Resolutions (NYRs) via Google Sheets. In 2021, he started 85% of his 34 NYRs and completed 65% of them. In 2022, he improved marginally, starting 90% of his 30 NYRs and completing 67% of them, seeing most success in Personal and Physical categories, and least success in the Financial category (RIP the stock market). Here are some of our 2023 New Year’s Resolutions:
Justin
Finish his Georgia Tech Master of Science in Analytics (finally)
Bike 5000 miles (follow my journey on Strava 😃)
Complete 3 Century bike rides (100 miles in one go)
Place top 3 in a bike race
Dan
Read 25 books (1 every 2 weeks and 2 weeks OOO)
Be active more days than not
Develop 3 new non-tech hobbies
Deploy 4 needle-moving models in production
Take some time to read this piece from one of our favorite data bloggers, Josh Laurito (NYC), about his top 10 posts from 2022.
Otherwise, please fill out the EDA Demographics Survey so we know how to focus our events for the coming year! If you fill it out, you will receive details on how to get reimbursed for this Udemy Data Science course.
- Justin, Alex, Dan, and Shany
Intro-Level Material
(Blog Post) TikTok’s Secret Sauce
(Blog Post) The Most Engaging Stories of 2022
(Blog Post) 2023 Predictions: 6 Data Trends We're Watching
(Blog Post) 2023: The Year Pay Transparency Becomes a Much Bigger Deal
Intermediate Material
(Blog Post) Confirmatory factor analysis with a structural equation model
(Blog Post) Kevin McCarthy's flailing bid for Speaker of the House is not (only) about ideological differences
Advanced Material
(Blog Post) What is a latent variable?
(Presentation) How Large Language Models are transforming the future of Fintech
(Blog Post) Measuring Embedding Drift
Upcoming
1/23: Data Day Texas 2023
(IN SF) 1/24: Evaluation, Testing and Tooling: Talks by ML & NLP Practitioners
1/24: Automatic Captions: Our Experiments and Best Practices
1/24: Making Sense of Complex Patient-Generated Mobile Health Data
1/31: Unifying Data and Models for Cross-Domain Personalized Fashion Recommendations
2/1: Combining Prompt Engineering, Programmatic Labelling, and Model Tuning in the No-Code NLP Lab
2/2: 2023 AI/ML Investment Priorities (Verta)
3/11 - 3/18: NYC Open Data Week
Jobs, jobs, jobs
Send us any data science jobs you come across, and we’ll post them here!
NLP Data Scientist Co-Founder (Remote/DC) | GovPro AI — Reach out to Justin Schulberg if you’re interested in being a part-time cofounder of an Excel-created startup!
Civic Digital Fellowship and Civic Innovation Corps (Remote/DC) | Coding it Forward
Data Modeling Analyst (NYC) | NYU
Data Analyst (Brooklyn) | Goodwill
Senior Data Scientist (NYC) | NBA
Data Analyst (Remote) | The Trevor Project
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