Jared P. Lander

Owner and Founder JP Lander Consulting

Coorganizer of the New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup (formerly the R Meetup)

Adjunct Professor at Columbia University

Author of upcoming book R for Non-Statisticians

Author of coefplot package

NYC vs SV

Collecting Data

• Drew Conway (Machine Learning For Hackers)
• John Myles White (Machine Learning For Hackers)
• Ben Lerner (DataNitro, Y Combinator Alum)
• Saar Golde (Stanford University)
• Paul Dix (NYC Machine Learning Meetup, Y Combinator this summer)

Silicon Valley

• Tech is all consuming
• More access to Venture Capital
• Tech is life
• More internally competitive
• Just tech

New York

• Life outside tech
• Tighter knit community
• Social media
• Finance, advertising, healthcare, NGO

Bus Ads

Silicon Valley

• Jobs for programmers
• For a church: “Google can’t help you find everything.”

New York

• Fashion
• Television Shows

Typical Night

Silicon Valley

• “Our building had a hot tub. We checked it out on the first night there, and ran into a guy with a startup and two students interning for him.”

New York

• Get dinner, go to data drinks with other stats geeks, go out to bar with other friends, finish night with pizza.

Historical Baggage

Silicon Valley

• Long history of building great tech products

New York

• Long history of clients caring about everything except the tech

Live Like You Want

Silicon Valley

• Socially and profesionally tied to tech for better or worse

New York

• Live a normal life in a more exciting city
• Develop domain expertise in varried fields

Get In Touch

Twitter: @jaredlander

Site: www.jaredlander.com

GitHub: www.github.com/jaredlander