EDA: New Year, New Changes to EDA Leadership!
+ Happy Chanukah + EDA Demographics Survey + Strava's Year in Sport
Hi Folks,
We hope everyone had a happy Chanukah!
First off, we’d like to start by welcoming Shany Hordan to the EDA leadership team! She is an Israeli from the Excel ‘21 cohort. Shany will be working with us to expand our reach to the Israelis interested in data science and analytics. Feel free to drop her a line if you have any ideas or want to help!
As the EDA community approaches its 2 year anniversary, we wanted to re-launch our Demographics Survey to get a better sense of what YOU all want to get out of the community. Take 2-3 minutes to fill this out:
With the new year coming up hot, it’s time for descriptive analytics to shine! Most people share Spotify Wrapped as their year-in-review-analytics-post-de-jour, but Justin’s favorite analytics-driven-year-in-review post is Strava’s Year in Sport. Check it out!
Have any other cool analytics-driven-year-in-review posts? Respond to this email to share them with us!
With so much discussion about AI in the WhatsApp, we wanted to share this really insightful video from The Economist about some of the cool applications of AI going forward:
- Justin, Alex, and Dan
Intro-Level Material
(Post) Strava’s Year in Sport
(GitHub) Facebook Creates AI Agent to Master the Game of Diplomacy
(Post) Interpreting Lower Order Coefficients When the Model Contains an Interaction
Intermediate Material
(Video) Get Fraud Detection and Risk Analysis into Production Faster with In-Database ML
(Blog Post) Data Systems Tend Towards Production
(Blog Post) Building Airbnb Categories with ML and Human-in-the-Loop
Advanced Material
Upcoming
12/15: NormConf
Jobs, jobs, jobs
Send us any data science jobs you come across, and we’ll post them here!
Senior Data Scientist (NYC/Remote) | CVS Health (reach out to Justin Schulberg for a reference)
Data Scientist (NYC) | Code Climate
Data Analyst (SF) | San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development
GIS Specialist (Tucson, AZ) | The Nature Conservancy
Research Associate/Data Analyst II, DataSpark (Kingston, RI) | University of Rhode Island
Data Scientist, Growth & Analytics (Oakland, CA) | Smile Identity
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