Data Science Digest - 9th March 2025

Sessions from the NICAR Data Journalism conference, interviews with Datadog's CPO and SVP of Engineering, and a chocolate sales dataset trending on Kaggle. Also, Data Science jobs from SynergisticIT, Innova, Supermicro and more.

March 09, 2025

SynergisticIT - Junior Data scientist/Jr Java jenkins git Developer-remote
Boston, MA, United States
< Cpp, Python >

CyberCoders - Applied Scientist - (Multi-Modal Detection)
Multiple cities, United States
< Python, ML, AI >

Harnham - Head of Machine Learning (3D/Imaging/Computer Vision)
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, AWS, ML >

Data Science news around the web

Simon Willison - What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025

“I presented two sessions at the NICAR 2025 data journalism conference this year. The first was this one based on my review of LLMs in 2024, extended by several months to cover everything that’s happened in 2025 so far… Here are the slides and detailed notes from my review of what’s new in LLMs, with a focus on trends that are relative to data journalism.”

simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/nicar-llms

This Month in Datadog - February 2025

“On a special episode, we're joined by Datadog CPO Yanbing Li and SVP of Engineering David Mitchell, who discuss building products, our engineering culture, and more.”

www.datadoghq.com/blog/this-month-in-datadog-february-2025

My 16-month theanine self-experiment

randomized and blinded, N=1

dynomight.net/theanine

Trending on Kaggle - Chocolate Sales Data 📊🍫

“A Comprehensive Dataset for Analyzing Chocolate Sales Trends… This dataset contains detailed records of chocolate sales, including product details, sales quantities, revenue, and customer segments. It is designed for sales forecasting, trend analysis, and business intelligence, helping businesses optimize pricing strategies, inventory management, and customer targeting. ”

www.kaggle.com/datasets/atharvasoundankar/chocolate-sales/data

Observable blog - When to use bar or line charts for time series data

“A closer look at bar charts, why they work better for categorical data than line charts, and why things are a bit more complicated when it comes to time”

observablehq.com/blog/bars-vs-lines-time-series-data

Data science jobs

Infactory - Head of Machine Learning
San Francisco, CA, United States
< ML, AI >

Illumio - Staff Software Engineer - AI/ML
Sunnyvale, CA, United States
< Python, Cloud, Azure, ML, UI >

Infosys - Pricing Analytics
Richardson, TX, United States
< Python, Cloud, Azure, AI >

Supermicro - Sr. Program Manager
Campbell, CA, United States
< Cloud >

CyberCoders - Applied Scientist - (Multi-Modal Detection)
Multiple cities, United States
< Python, ML, AI >

Innova - Technical Head of Software Engineering
New York, NY, United States
< Python, Cloud, Azure, AWS, ML, AI >

SynergisticIT - Junior Data scientist/Jr aws java Developer-remote
New York City, NY, United States
< Cpp, Python, AI >

SynergisticIT - Junior Data scientist/Jr Java jenkins git Developer-remote
Boston, MA, United States
< Cpp, Python >

Mastek - Lead Architect
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, Cloud, Azure >

Ameba - Full-Stack Software Engineer
London, England, United Kingdom
< Cpp, Python, AWS, AI >

Harnham - Senior Data Engineer
Blackburn, England, United Kingdom
< Python, Azure >

Harvey Nash - Senior Data Engineer
United Kingdom, None, United Kingdom
< Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS >

Capsa AI - Artificial Intelligence Engineer
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, Azure, AI >

Harnham - Senior Machine Learning Engineer - 3D Graphics
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, AWS, ML >

Harnham - Head of Machine Learning
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, VR, AR, ML >

Harnham - Head of Machine Learning (3D/Imaging/Computer Vision)
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Python, AWS, ML >

WMtech - Snr ML Engineer – Machine Learning, LLMs, MLOps, RAG, Prompt Engineering, UK Remote
Multiple locations, Multiple states, United Kingdom
< Python, Cloud, GCP, ML, AI >

TechNET Immersive - Senior C++ Engineer
London Area, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
< Cpp, Python, ML, AI >

Lotlinx, Inc. - Senior Data Engineer
Greater Winnipeg Metropolitan Area, None, Canada
< Python, Cloud, GCP, AWS, AI >

Themesoft Inc. - DevOps Engineer with Hadoop Experience
Toronto, ON, Canada
< Azure >

Method Recruiting, a 3x Inc. 5000 company - Reporting and Data Analyst
canada, None, Canada
< ML, AI >

Aubay - Tech Lead Data Engineering F/H
Paris, Île-de-France, France
< Python, Cloud, AI >

Exakis Nelite - Architecte Cloud Azure Data (H/F)
Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
< Cloud, Azure >

Exakis Nelite - Architecte Cloud Azure Data H/F
Toulouse, Occitanie, France
< Cloud, Azure >

Aleysia - Développeur Python/Développeuse Python
Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
< Python, Cloud, Azure, GCP, AWS >

Talent Seed - Lead Machine Learning Engineer [Riyadh]
Greater Paris Metropolitan Region, None, France
< Python, ML, AI >

NAVARA - Data Engineer
Zeist, Utrecht, Netherlands
< Python, Cloud, Azure, AWS, ML >