Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by sebg » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 3:04 PM UTC

Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail
washingtonpost.com

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Post by mariojv » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 4:08 PM UTC

Looks like the map is broken right now. Is anyone else having problems viewing it?

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Post by harterrt » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 4:11 PM UTC

I'm surprised by the prevalence of the green dots, particularly in San Jose.

I'll have to take a look at the data to verify government and education jobs are really that common.

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by 0942v8653 » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 4:15 PM UTC

Direct link: http://robertmanduca.com/projects/jobs.html

The data is available in (gzipped) CSV here: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/data/

And LEHD also has its own visualizations here: http://lehd.ces.census.gov/applications/

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Post by protomyth » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 4:18 PM UTC

Other than it seems to only allows zooming in cities, its data is pretty wrong looking at the local map. I don't see the local manufacturing plant or any farm jobs.

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by bullgod66 » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 4:28 PM UTC

It's so sad that most jobs are not interesting. The only thing that is actually interesting is theoretical math, and there are no jobs in industry that require that - all of the interesting jobs are in academia, and the competition is too intense except for the very top. What a cruel world we live in.

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Post by dimino » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 4:29 PM UTC

That's kind of odd, that Mass. isn't included. I wonder what happened there.

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Post by placeybordeaux » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 4:33 PM UTC

bullgod66 wrote: post #6

It's so sad that most jobs are not interesting. The only thing that is actually interesting is theoretical math, and there are no jobs in industry that require that - all of the interesting jobs are in academia, and the competition is too intense except for the very top. What a cruel world we live in.

Is this satire?

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by moistgorilla » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 4:42 PM UTC

bullgod66 wrote: post #6

It's so sad that most jobs are not interesting. The only thing that is actually interesting is theoretical math, and there are no jobs in industry that require that - all of the interesting jobs are in academia, and the competition is too intense except for the very top. What a cruel world we live in.

Ha, good thing what's "interesting" is entirely subjective

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by benkuykendall » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 4:44 PM UTC

bullgod66 wrote: post #6

It's so sad that most jobs are not interesting. The only thing that is actually interesting is theoretical math, and there are no jobs in industry that require that - all of the interesting jobs are in academia, and the competition is too intense except for the very top. What a cruel world we live in.

It really matters a lot more if an employee finds his or her own job interesting than if you find it interesting. I can personally attest that at least one employee finds his job in software development interesting, even though it involves little to no theoretical math. In fact, I find it a little disparaging that you call my career uninteresting so unequivocally.

However, if you yourself are so dedicated to pursuing mathematics (which does sound like an interesting topic) know that there are mathematicians in industry. Tech companies and government agencies hire huge numbers of math majors, and although the work can stray into the realms of applied mathematics, your interest in pure math could serve you well.