Job Locations for July Who's Hiring Thread
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Job Locations for July Who's Hiring Thread
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Re: Job Locations for July Who's Hiring Thread
#2Beautiful data - thanks for this. I've been coaxed into making a presentation to some other students here, and I'm collecting graphical data to make it more interesting. Appreciated!
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#3link to hiring thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2719028
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#4It would be awesome to see something like this that tracked the frequency of languages / frameworks desired over time.
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#5It would be useful to aggregate some of this based on a, say, 25 mile radius. I think separating Cambridge from Boston, for example, obscures some of the data here.
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#6It would be awesome to see something like this that tracked the frequency of languages / frameworks desired over time.
Maybe we as should design a little machine readable snippet that can optionally be added to the end of posts. I'd suggest json as it's easy to read/write and is popular. e.g
...post... {type: ["intern"], languages: ["ruby", "scala"], frameworks: ["rails", "lift"], location: {city: "vancouver", region: "bc", country: "canada"}}
Simple schema, all optional keys: { type: ["intern"|"remote"|"h1b"|"fulltime"|"partime"], languages: [..self explanatory..], frameworks: [..self explanatory..], location: }
location could be an object as I have it above, or a simple [long, lat] pair, or a url to google maps such as (http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=Vancouver,+British+Columbia&...). [long, lat] is probably the simplest and most precise but it's difficult to author/discover your own location.
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#7As a side note, providing the location with a brief job description is probably the 2nd most important piece of information. Let's go ahead and make that the standard right now please.
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#8It would be useful to aggregate some of this based on a, say, 25 mile radius. I think separating Cambridge from Boston, for example, obscures some of the data here.
Not to mention for example "boston ma" vs. "boston ma." or "new york new york" vs. "new york ny".
On the other hand, the size of area to aggregate probably depends on how close you live to that area.
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#9There is a job in "boston ma." mistakenly placed on the map at Macon, Ga.
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#10Hey, Vancouver's in Waterloo and Waterloo's underwater along the border with the US.
Geocoding problem?