Attending this week’s Strata conference it was easy to see quite how prolific the NYC Data Mafia is when it comes to writing. Some of the found books: Books from the #nycdatamafia @drewconway @johnmyleswhite http://t.co/EuV4FF6JA7 pic.twitter.com/Oi8tVcjPYE — NYC Data Hackers (@nyhackr) October 29, 2013 Books from the #nycdatamafia @mikedewar http://t.co/w2oCS2jLvN pic.twitter.com/yiq9x6SG3y — NYC Data Hackers… Continue reading
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Ten years ago Josh Reich held the first ever New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup at Union Square Ventures. Back then it was called the New York R Meetup and 21 people RSVP’d. I discovered the Meetup three months later thanks to Andrew Gelman’s blog and by then the RSVP count had doubled and Drew… Continue reading
The 2018 New York R Conference was the biggest and best yet. This is both in terms of the crowd size and content. The speakers included some of the R community’s best such as Hadley Wickham, David Robinson, Jennifer Hill, Max Kuhn, Andreas Mueller (ok, a little Python), Evelina Gabasova, Sean Taylor and Jeff Ryan.… Continue reading
Last year, as I embarked on my NFL sports statistics work, I attended the Sloan Sports Analytics Conference for the first time. A year later, after a very successful draft, I was invited to present an R workshop to the conference. My time slot was up against Nate Silver so I didn’t expect many people… Continue reading
This year we celebrated Mega Pi Day with the date (3/14/15) covering the first four digits of Pi. And of course, we unveiled the Pi Cake at 9:26 to get the next three digits. This year the cake came from Empire Cakes and was peanut butter flavored. We even had the bakery put as many… Continue reading
About a month ago we had our final Data Science class of the semester. We took a great class photo that I meant to share then but am just getting to it now. I also snapped a great shot of Adam Obeng in front of an NYC Data Mafia slide during his class presentation. Related… Continue reading
This year’s Pi Cake courtesy of Chrissie Cook: Side View: And don’t forget this is Albert Einstein’s birthday was well. How are you celebrating this fantastic geek holiday? Like last year, the NYC Data Mafia will be out celebrating with (round) pizza. Related Posts Pi Cake 2018 Pi Cake 2017 Pi Cake 2016 First Bayesian… Continue reading
A new study, reported in the New York Times, tracked population movements in post-earthquake Haiti using cell phone data. The article grabbed my attention because one of the authors, Richard Garfield (whom I have done numerous projects with and who has his own Wikipedia entry!), had told me about this very study just a few… Continue reading
As mentioned earlier, yesterday was Pi Day so a bunch of statisticians and other such nerds celebrated at the new(ish) Artichoke Basille near the High Line. We had three pies: the signature Artichoke, the Margherita and the Anchovy, which was delicious but only some of us ate. And of course we had our custom cake… Continue reading
