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Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by ytdht »

bullgod66 wrote: post #19
selimthegrim wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Uh so why don't you write some of those libraries? Do you think the ivory tower is the only place people conceptualize unmet needs (Hint: it isn't)

If you wrote a new library, what would you put in it? What is the point of writing a new library that contains functions that already exist in other libraries? I'm not saying industry doesn't conceptualize unmet needs. I'm only saying that it's intellectually uninteresting.

one point could be to generalize what an existing libraries do... perhaps... but I don't code much so I don't know

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by wahsd »

Seems to me like modeling every single job based on census data seems unnecessary. Couldn't you also use maybe even just other census data or zoning data on the types of businesses and then pattern based on density, esp. with such rough grouping of classifications?

Great work thought.

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by nostrademons »

c-slice wrote: post #18

For some reason, the map seems to be categorizing technology jobs as green (Healthcare, Education, and Government). Look at SF, and it's almost completely green.

The data is very dubious - they've mapped the entire Googleplex as "Retail, hospitality, and other services". The North Bayshore area east of Shoreline is listed as "Manufacturing and trade" - most of that area is Google now.

Sunnyvale and the Stanford area look pretty accurate though, and it got the big office park near Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman and some of the industrial areas in Santa Clara. Perhaps it's working off an old data set (~2000ish)?

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by rando3826 »

joshuaheard wrote: post #16

Great map! I notice a large amount of green. In fact, most major cities are completely green. Could it be an even tight mix of blue and yellow dots making it look green? Also, the Microsoft campus near where I live is red (Mfg, trade). Wouldn't they be blue (professional)? How about a color for agricultural jobs.

re. microsoft: they are, just bundled into a small area. Look closely.

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by jnordwick »

This it not the TYPE of job, but by INDUSTRY it appears from looking at the LED (Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics) description.

The difference is incredibly important. Have 500 workers including janitorial, secretarial, programmers, and executives at a high-tech company and they are all reported as high-tech workers regardless if the highest tech they touch is a floor waxer. Or have some IT people at a hotel and they are classified as hospitality.

I never like these industry classifications because they aren't actually very helpful in looking at employent statistics except in aggregate.

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by jnordwick »

protomyth wrote: post #5

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.

Farm jobs are generally not included in the employment statistics gathered (nor for military occupations) for historical reasons. There was a push in the 80s the change that.

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by jnordwick »

c-slice wrote: post #18

For some reason, the map seems to be categorizing technology jobs as green (Healthcare, Education, and Government). Look at SF, and it's almost completely green.

Based on industry. It is based on industry not category of job. E.e., everybody at McDonalds is classified as food services even if they are sys admins.

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by lifeformed »

placeybordeaux wrote: post #8
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?

Just change "interesting" and "we" in his post to "interesting to me" and "I". Then it's reasonable.

Re: Nearly every job in America, mapped in detail

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Post by kec »

nostrademons wrote: post #33
c-slice wrote: post #18

For some reason, the map seems to be categorizing technology jobs as green (Healthcare, Education, and Government). Look at SF, and it's almost completely green.

The data is very dubious - they've mapped the entire Googleplex as "Retail, hospitality, and other services". The North Bayshore area east of Shoreline is listed as "Manufacturing and trade" - most of that area is Google now. Sunnyvale and the Stanford area look pretty accurate though, and it got the big office park near Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman and some of the industrial areas in Santa Clara. Perhaps it's working o…

Even if it's that old, that doesn't explain why Infinite Loop would be categorized as Manufacturing and trade, with all the area around it as healthcare and government.
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