Announcements
Academic Study on Women Data Scientists
If you are interested in participating in an academic study on women in data science, please reach out to Emma Vaast (@emmavaast), a professor at McGill University. Participating in the study consists of a skype call with Dr. Vaast with some questions about being a woman in data science. It's a short interview and Emma is a very nice person to speak with!
Her email is: [address removed]
New WiMLDS Chapter: Vermont
Please join us in welcoming a new chapter to the WiMLDS community! We're excited to announce the start of a chapter in Vermont, organized by Alison Cossette.
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Blogs
Noemi Derzsy, who attended our scikit sprint, blogged about contributing to open source projects.
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Conferences
Future Labs AI Summit - April 5
$50 discount code: ffVC Register Here
Join the top minds developing and investing in AI technologies as they discuss today's cutting-edge advances and applications — and what's yet to come. Learn how emerging tech players are harnessing AI to rethink robotics, communications and chatbots, healthcare, fintech, and more, as well as how key corporate, academic, and technology trailblazers are bringing AI into the real world.
Machine Learning in Finance Workshop - April 21
15% discount code: NYC-MEETUP Register Here
New York R Conference - April 21-22
25% discount code: WiMLDS25 Register Here
Where R enthusiasts and data scientists gather to explore, share and inspire ideas.
QuantCon - April 29
10% discount code: WomeninMLDS Register Here
The 3-day program includes expert talks, tutorials, and ample networking opportunities with leaders from around the quantitative finance world.
Developer Week - June 19-21
We’re excited to partner with DeveloperWeek NY 2017, New York’s largest developer conference & festival! Join over 3,000 developers, dev managers, and tech executives for 5 days of hackathons, hiring mixers, a DevTech conference.
Get your free OPEN Dev Pass here (Limit 100)
What does your OPEN Dev Pass get you into?
- DevTech Expo covering App Dev, VR Dev, AI Dev, Mobile Dev
- 50+ OPEN talks and workshops
- Week of partner events
O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference - June 26-29
20% discount code: UGWMLDS Register Here
Learn how to implement AI in real projects. Delve into the latest research to learn how AI is changing the business landscape. Uncover AI's limitations and untapped opportunities. Join with practitioners and innovators in AI to explore what the future holds—and how to get there from here.
JupyterCon - Aug 22-25
Registration opens: April
The world's most data-driven organizations are now using Jupyter Notebooks - an immensely powerful tool for sharing and communicating data analysis. Notebooks and other open source Jupyter tools can solve "last mile" issues of communicating data to management, create self-documenting and future-friendly apps and widgets, and transform workflows of organizations. At JupyterCon you'll learn how to weave computation and data into rich, interactive narratives from the experts. You'll discover intriguing new enterprise use cases. And you'll join the community of Jupyter users and developers to help shape the project's future.
Strata Data Conference in New York, Sep 25-28
Call for Speakers: deadline April 4, 2017
They're looking for speakers to share compelling data case studies, proven best practices, effective new analytic approaches, and exceptional skills with a talented and technical audience.
Strata Data Conference is the leading event for data scientists, analysts, and executives to get up to speed on emerging techniques and technologies. Hear case studies, develop new skills, and share emerging best practices around cutting-edge science and new business fundamentals.
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Career Opportunities
Major League Soccer
Manager, Insights & Analytics - New York, NY
Viacom
Social Data Engineer - New York, NY
Senior Data Scientist - New York, NY
Bloomberg
Data Scientist - Network Infrastructure - New York, NY
Software Engineer / Research Scientist – Machine Learning Team - New York, NY
Natural Language Processing - Research Scientist - New York, NY
HSBC
Sr Analyst, Customer Analytics - Depew, NY or Arlington Heights, Illinois
Quora
Software Engineer - Mountain View, CA
Engineering Manager – Machine Learning - Mountain View, CA
University of Texas at Austin
Engineering Scientist - Austin, TX
Conde Nast
Data Scientist - New York, NY
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Scikit Sprint
Thank you to Stack Exchange for hosting us and Bloomberg for providing food and refreshments. And a big thank you to Andreas Mueller for leading the sprint and Vighnesh Nandan Birodkar and Ritesh Bansal for assisting.
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Progress on scikit learn library: 18 pull requests submitted!
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Offers
O'Reilly Discount
Use discount code PCBW here and get 50% off most ebooks/videos and 40% off most print books.
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