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Journalists & Writers Meetup – Everybody Welcome Are you a journalist, writer, editor, blogger, or content creator? Join us for an open networking meetup in New York City. Let’s connect, share ideas, discuss investigative reporting, digital storytelling, publishing opportunities, and collaboration. Whether you’re established or just starting out—this is a space to learn and grow together.

😎It's here! Our next dbt meetup is coming up and will be hosted at the **Datadog** office: * New York Times Bldg, 620 8th Ave - 45th floor * New York, NY 10018 We are looking forward to socializing and seeing all of the new and familiar faces! 💡dbt Meetups are networking events open to all folks working with data! Talks predominantly focus on community members' experience with dbt, however, you'll catch presentations on broader topics such as analytics engineering, data stacks, data ops, modeling, testing, and team structures. **Our venue has capacity limits, so please only RSVP if you intend to come** and reach out to \**partnerships@brooklyndata.co*\* if you need to cancel last minute. At anytime, you may update your RSVP status on the Meetup to "Not Going." ➡️ Join the dbt Slack community: [https://www.getdbt.com/community/](https://www.getdbt.com/community/) 🤝For the best Meetup experience, make sure to join the **#local-nyc** channel in dbt Slack ([https://slack.getdbt.com/](https://slack.getdbt.com/)) dbt is the standard in data transformation, used by over 40,000 organizations worldwide. Through the application of software engineering best practices like modularity, version control, testing, and documentation, dbt’s analytics engineering workflow helps teams work more efficiently to produce data the entire organization can trust. Learn more: [https://www.getdbt.com/](https://www.getdbt.com/) \*\*\* 🏠**Venue Host**: Datadog 🍕**Catering**: TBD 🤝**Organizer**: Brooklyn Data 📣 Agenda and additional details below: * 5:30pm Networking * 6:00pm Intro remarks \| Refreshments & Conversation * Additional Sessions and Times Coming Soon ✨Speakers and Topics: * Maksim Romanchuk, Analytics Engineer at Westchester Medical Center on **One Model, Two Pipelines: Environment Variables Beyond Feature Flags** * Stephen Sciortino, Founder at DatabaseTycoon on **How to introduce dbt to your team** 🎤 Interested in speaking at a future meetup? Submit your interest using [this form](https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=xIkPdS1TOUOf2bYF7KJByN1Oqcs2pwhFhb9JprUBxnpUMjJQMEFFSDQ4TUtYUEY2N0dPV0dLUlRBUy4u), and we'll be in touch! To attend, please read the Required Participation Language for In-Person Events with dbt Labs: [https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy](https://www.getdbt.com/legal/health-and-safety-policy) *All participants are welcome. For questions regarding access and accommodation, please contact partnerships@brooklyndata.co in advance.*

WE ARE BACK IN PERSON!

**This group is open 24/7.** **There are no set times. Whom ever is available at the time. You just send a text in the group chat or call in and take it from there.** If you haven’t received the WhatsApp group url link, please register first. Then a message should be sent out with the url link. **Reminders for this group:** - This group is about encouragement, support, networking in the world of analytics. - Struggling with job search? Networking? Mentorship? Maybe, we can share what we have gone thru and working on each day. - Welcome to all analysts & data related individuals, mentors, virtual assistants that are looking to help analysts with their job search or current role. - Project collaboration? Maybe we can create a Project together and showcase it on our portfolio websites and various social media sites to show potential employers our skill sets and experience. How's that sound? Send Carmelo a message if you are interested in this! **Rules to follow in this group:** - No bullying, hate talking, disrespect - Encouragement welcomed - Support welcomed - Mentorship and guidance welcomed in our job search - Networking encouraged - Safe space to share our trials and struggles in our journey in analytics ✅️Any questions or clarification, please reach out to me at anytime- Carmelo.

IMPORTANT: PLEASE USE THE QR CODE SENT TO YOUR EMAIL TO ACCESS THE BUILDING Come show your support for your fellow developers! We’re very happy to bring the community together for an evening of learning and connection. This time, we'll have a community member sharing a use case and, as usual, an Elastic employee sharing their expertise as well. Join us to learn something new and meet others who are passionate about search, observability, and security. **Agenda:** * 5:30 pm: Doors open; say hi and eat some food * 6:00 pm: Agent Builder: Providing Relevant Context for Data Driven Agents", by Kathleen DeRusso, Principal Software Engineer I at Elastic * 6:30 pm: Q&A * 6:40 pm: Improving Search Ranking with LambdaMART and Elasticsearch, by Brandon (Anbang) Wu, Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Quizlet * 7:10 pm: Q&A * 7:20 - 7:30 pm: Networking and event wrap-up **Abstract** **"Agent Builder: Providing Relevant Context for Data Driven Agents"** What are agents? What is context engineering? Join us as we dive into the importance of context engineering for providing relevant information to agents, and how to build grounded agents using Elastic Agent Builder. **"Improving Search Ranking with LambdaMART and Elasticsearch"** Quizlet’s search extended manual Elasticsearch boosts with a Learning-to-Rank (LambdaMART) model. Using query, engagement, and content features, we trained on study signals and validated with A/B tests, achieving measurable lifts in study rates: +3.42% on blended pages, +1.86% on sets pages, and +1.05–1.81% in downstream outcomes. This talk shares how we combined a custom ML re-ranker with Elasticsearch results—covering training data design, offline evaluation, latency, and model interpretability—and offers guidance for Elastic users to go beyond boosting and improve ranking quality. **Where**: Elastic NYC Office 1250 Broadway, Floor 16, Training Room New York, NY 10001 **When**: Feb 19th \| Doors open at 5:30 PM If you’re a long-time Elastic user or just starting your journey, this is the perfect opportunity to share ideas, meet new people, and get inspired. See you there!

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