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Thanks to meetup.com, you can find a gathering to match every shade of identity, interest, career, and hobby you might have. For software engineers, there’s New York Software Engineers (1,800 members), NYC Java (2,700 members), NYC Python (nearly 3,000), Hadoop User Group (over 1,800), and New York Open Statistical Programming (2,500). Knewton has been a proud host of meetups for all these great groups. Within the tech industry alone, edtech, adtech, healthtech, cleantech, and publishing… Read more

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Last Monday, Knewton hosted the NY Tech Women holiday/birthday party. Since its inception last December, NY Tech Women has grown to include nearly one thousand women. Through happy hours, mixers, pre-meetups and other informal social events, the group offers a number of ways for women to develop a real sense of community within the NY tech scene. More than just the standard business networking hour, the group is an easy way for women to form… Read more

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This Tuesday, we hosted our biggest meetup yet! Over 150 people came out to hear Jose Ferreira, our Founder & CEO, speak on a panel with Greg Gunn, Entrepreneur in Residence, City Light Capital & Co-founder, Wireless Generation; Harold Levy, MD, Palm Ventures; & Laurie Racine, Founder & MD, Startl.

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This past Tuesday, Knewton hosted one of NY’s most intense machine learning/big data events of the year. Over 100 people came out to mingle and listen to an awesome lineup of speakers. If you have the time, check out the full recording: Otherwise, here’s a quick look at what went down. The evening was kicked off by one of Knewton’s lead data scientists, George Davis. George talked about how Knewton develops scalable statistical models of… Read more

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Wistia is an awesome startup that provides professional video hosting and analytics services to a number of companies — including Knewton. They recently featured a blog post by our own Jess Nepom with tips for editing video on an iPhone. If you’re interested in Jess’ thoughts on editing apps, check out the original post. Here, we thought we’d feature her final, iPhone-edited product — a video of the first meetup at our new office: “Understanding… Read more

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There’s been a lot of talk about the importance of hiring “T-shaped” people — employees with a breadth of experience across a variety of disciplines (the horizontal bar of the letter T), as well as deep knowledge and expertise in a particular field (the vertical bar). Our Head of Infrastructure Dave Zwieback (aka DZ) has a different requirement when it comes time to find DevOps hires: he’s looking for comb-shaped people. Watch DZ’s talk at… Read more

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Knewton Knerds are big fans of NY Graph Meetup—a group devoted to the discussion of graph structures, graph theory, graph databases, and related topics. Why graphs? And why now? According to the group, graph structures and methods are becoming ubiquitous these days: “As the size of datasets being generated, processed, and presented continues to grow, the relative strengths and weaknesses of different data structures, including graphs, have become more and more significant in everyday applications.”… Read more

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On Friday, we took part in WalkaboutNYC, a one day showcase of tech companies around the city. Though the Roots were booked, over 80 people came by our office to enjoy snacks and beer (nothing like a tech event to encourage day drinking!) and hear a bit about what makes all of us here at Knewton tick. No one even seemed to mind that we didn’t get to show off our new office (we’re saving that one for… Read more

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We’ll be out on the exhibit floor at NY Tech Day tomorrow, Thursday, April 19, along with a whole bunch of other Silicon Alley startups — 160 in total. This year’s event is the first of its kind in NYC and we’re excited to be part of the action. Two of our product managers, Sara and Paul, will be manning our booth throughout the day.  If you’re planning on attending NY Tech Day, swing by… Read more

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