Civis Analytics Blog
civisanalytics.com · Company blog · on HN since 2014
Civis Analytics is a Chicago data science company whose blog covers Python and R, data visualization, and engineering practices.
What HN saysHN mostly links it for the company's job postings in the monthly hiring threads, plus a data-science piece on Mario Kart characters.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Careers4 people · first shared 2014
- 2Forget Python vs. R: how they can work together3 people · 19 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 3Civis Analytics is hiring engineers and data scientists3 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 4Homepage3 people · first shared 2014
- 5Want to Be a Better Engineer? Be a Better Researcher2 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 6Exploring Virtual Reality Data Visualization with the Gear VR1 people · 19 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 7Swagger::Diff – detect breaking API changes1 people · 14 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 8glmnet for Python1 people · 11 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 9Data Science on State of the Union Addresses1 people · 10 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 10Chicago Uses Data Mining Technology to Encourage Mammography1 people · 10 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 11CivisML: scikit-learn at Scale1 people · 9 points · first shared 2017 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Elegant AWS Access Management with the IAM Role Injector1 people · 8 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 13Civis API: Scale Up Your Data Science1 people · 6 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 14How Data Scientists and Social Scientists Can Work Together (Strata 2015 Talk)1 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 15SCOTUS, ACA, and Twitter1 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
BGCivis · 2016-07-01
Civis Analytics (https://civisanalytics.com) - Chicago, IL - Full-time - Onsite
Civis is a 3 year old, quickly growing, Chicago-based technology company that helps organizations utilize data science to make better decisions. We build software products that empower organizations to understand their data at the individual level and put it to work.
Our roots are in politics and campaigns, but we now also work with non-profits, healthcare and education groups, the public sector, and across the media landscape.
We've had some recent press in Wired (http://bit.ly/1tdw4Uu) and the WSJ (http://on.wsj.com/2913XOx).
We are hiring for software engineers and data scientists of all levels and multiple disciplines, including a lead data engineer, full-stack web-developers, natural language processing experts, and more.
What's so great about working at Civis Analytics?
Your work will make the world a better place. Don’t just experience the thrill of solving interesting problems-- have the satisfaction of knowing that your work makes a difference in the world.
You will learn. Our engineers and data scientists are the best and brightest in their fields, and are eager to teach and learn from you.
Your work will be diverse. Every day we're learning and working on new, cutting edge problems at the intersection of technology, data science, and practical application.
Your voice can change the direction of a project. We strongly encourage our staff to participate in the brainstorming and…
CivisBG · 2016-06-01
Civis Analytics (https://civisanalytics.com) - Chicago, IL - Full-time - Onsite
We solve the world's biggest problems with big data. Civis Analytics empowers organizations to understand their data at the individual level and put it to work — every single day.
What's so great about working at Civis Analytics?
Your work will make the world a better place. Don’t just experience the thrill of solving interesting problems-- have the satisfaction of knowing that your work makes a difference in the world.
You will learn. Our engineers and data scientists are the best and brightest in their fields, and are eager to teach and learn from you.
Your work will be diverse. Every day we're learning and working on new, cutting edge problems at the intersection of technology, data science, and practical application.
Your voice can change the direction of a project. We strongly encourage our staff to participate in the brainstorming and prioritization process. We don't want people that mindlessly program. We want your perspective and experience.
Civis Analytics is hiring for software engineers and data scientists of all levels and multiple disciplines, including data engineers, full-stack web-developers, natural language processing experts, and more. See our open positions and apply at: https://civisanalytics.com/careers
We're smart, fun, and a little bit weird. Does this sound like you?
tgtweak · 2026-08-06
2020: https://www.civisanalytics.com/resources/the-best-mario-kart-character…
OG credit to: Henry Hinnefeld
2015: https://hinnefe2.github.io/python/tools/2015/09/21/mario-kart.html
aquinn2 · 2022-06-02
Civis Analytics | Remote | Full-Time | Software Engineer II, Software Engineering Technical Lead, Lead Product Manager, Applied Data Scientist II, Lead Applied Data Scientist | Must be US Authorized
You can find descriptions for all roles listed using the following link:
https://www.civisanalytics.com/careers/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_…
Civis Analytics specializes in data-driven audience campaigns for some of the world’s leading consumer brands, nonprofits, advocacy groups, and government agencies. Our unified data platform enables these organizations to collaboratively find, reach, and engage the people they care about most.
mattybrennan · 2021-12-01
Civis Analytics | Full Time | Remote (US) | DC, Chicago | https://www.civisanalytics.com
At Civis Analytics we bring objective, data-driven truth to organizational decision-making—all the way from the boardroom to the world’s largest social causes.
Our mission isn’t an aspiration, it’s something we see realized every day. We combine our SaaS products with specialized data science consultancy to enable and support data-driven decision making in organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, City of Boston, and progressive political campaigns.
Our product organization is customer-centric and leverages human-centered design practices to help build and improve our product experiences in ways that delight customers while strengthening our overall business.
We're hiring for lots of roles! A partial list:
- Senior Software Engineer
- Senior FrontEnd Engineer
- Software Engineer II
- Tech Lead
- DevOps Engineer II
- Senior DevOps Engineer
- Engineering Manager
- Director of Applied Data Science
- Data Scientist
- Client Success
- Solution Architect Lead
- Senior Product Manager
Apply online here https://grnh.se/266dd00b1
nolliebrown · 2017-08-01
Civis Analytics | Security Engineer |Chicago, IL| ONSITE, FULL-TIME |https://www.civisanalytics.com/careers/
At Civis, we take protecting data seriously and are looking for a security engineer with security and compliance expertise. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will work with our General Counsel and team of DevOps Engineers on the constant stream of new products and technologies used to support our cloud platform.
Interested? Apply online or email me (main recruiter) directly at [email protected]
DarkContinent · 2017-04-21
I really like Civis Analytics, which is here: https://www.civisanalytics.com/blog/
Lambent_Cactus · 2016-04-22
We built something like this for our our data science platform (https://civisanalytics.com/products/end-to-end-data-science/), but the containers run on a group of workers that are isolated in one VPC per customer. And even that is for enterprise customers where you have some layer of accountability - I can't imagine opening it up to the wild internet.
mdagostino · 2014-08-01
Civis Analytics- Chicago, IL We spun out of the analytics shop from the Obama 2012 re-election campaign to tackle really hard data science problems for campaigns, non-profits, and companies. We're looking for both junior and senior software engineers and data scientists: http://www.civisanalytics.com/apply