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NYC has a great ecosystem of experienced people who know how to program, know math, and understand how businesses/product work. In this regard there are many am
by rm999 9y ago
NYC has a great ecosystem of experienced people who know how to program, know math, and understand how businesses/product work. In this regard there are many amazing qualified data science practitioners.
But, the data science startup scene is not really thriving in NYC yet. Compared to the Bay Area, I see two main issues: a lack of data scientists with strong software engineering skills, and a lot less angel money (probably due to very few large successful exits).
- cspanopticon 9y ago>>lack of data scientists with strong engineering skills >>less angel money absolutely. this article is a great 30k feet up review of the scene and what you add is true. i operate NYC but literally live 100s of miles away as my affordable housing policy, because I am building an open data science consultancy that is revenue driven. what i'd add happens is that your scientists and tech people are a step removed from the real-world disciplines put in their petrie dish. they are not working in business settings, but institutional ones, because there isn't quite a silicon valley thing, and public-private-partnerships in NY mostly mean corruption, not innovation. that said, what makes the NYC scene really amazing is that most of us are doing our part as a civic project.