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Show HN: Who is Hiring on a map

2 points by sAbakumoff 10y ago

sAbakumoff 10y ago
Basically I wrote the code that parses HN's Who Is Hiring page, selects all the job positions, passes them through the Google Natural Language API in order to recognize the location entities(see https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/basics https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/basics), then builds the static html that shows the locations and the attached jobs in a Google Map. Note that AI's entities recognition does not always work well, some places does not make much sense..
- iblog 10y ago
  Ohh, I really like this.
- brudgers 10y ago
  Outside the major tech centers in the US, none of the locations I clicked were accurate. Billings MT, exemplifies the issue.
  - sAbakumoff 10y ago
    Thanks for the feedback! I agree that the recognition of location entities is not accurate in some cases. For example if a text like "Blockai | San Francisco, CA | CV/ML and Front-end Engineers - https://blockai.com"(from https://blockai.com"(from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12631335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12631335) is passed to Google Natural Language API: then it returns the following "locations": San Francisco, CA, ML, CV. https://github.com/sAbakumoff/hn-sort-out/blob/master/LangAnalytics.PNG https://github.com/sAbakumoff/hn-sort-out/blob/master/LangAn... However, ML stands for "Machine Learning" and CV is "Computer Vision". Perhaps the algorithm concludes that CV/ML is the location because it's close to other locations(San Francisco, CA). I will try to work it out for the next "Who's hiring" event :)
    - brudgers 10y ago
      Also look at Alabama and Georgia (the US state, not the country), because these break in other ways.
      - sAbakumoff 10y ago
        Could you elaborate about Georgia? I can see one job "Rails Machine | Savannah, GA | Remote (U.S. Only Please) | Site Reliability Engineer" that seems to be correct. As for Alabama's jobs I can see that is an investor's name "Bessemer" was recognized as Bessemer town in Alabama, "Cap Hill" area of Seattle became the place in Alabama as well and "Fifth Avenue" of NY and London also fell into Alabama..That's a total mess of course..
sAbakumoff 10y ago
The markers on a map are clickable by the way

2 points by sAbakumoff 10y ago

Basically I wrote the code that parses HN's Who Is Hiring page, selects all the job positions, passes them through the Google Natural Language API in order to recognize the location entities(see https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/basics https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/docs/basics), then builds the static html that shows the locations and the attached jobs in a Google Map. Note that AI's entities recognition does not always work well, some places does not make much sense..

iblog 10y ago
Ohh, I really like this.
brudgers 10y ago
Outside the major tech centers in the US, none of the locations I clicked were accurate. Billings MT, exemplifies the issue.
- sAbakumoff 10y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! I agree that the recognition of location entities is not accurate in some cases. For example if a text like "Blockai | San Francisco, CA | CV/ML and Front-end Engineers - https://blockai.com"(from https://blockai.com"(from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12631335 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12631335) is passed to Google Natural Language API: then it returns the following "locations": San Francisco, CA, ML, CV. https://github.com/sAbakumoff/hn-sort-out/blob/master/LangAnalytics.PNG https://github.com/sAbakumoff/hn-sort-out/blob/master/LangAn... However, ML stands for "Machine Learning" and CV is "Computer Vision". Perhaps the algorithm concludes that CV/ML is the location because it's close to other locations(San Francisco, CA). I will try to work it out for the next "Who's hiring" event :)
  - brudgers 10y ago
    Also look at Alabama and Georgia (the US state, not the country), because these break in other ways.
    - sAbakumoff 10y ago
      Could you elaborate about Georgia? I can see one job "Rails Machine | Savannah, GA | Remote (U.S. Only Please) | Site Reliability Engineer" that seems to be correct. As for Alabama's jobs I can see that is an investor's name "Bessemer" was recognized as Bessemer town in Alabama, "Cap Hill" area of Seattle became the place in Alabama as well and "Fifth Avenue" of NY and London also fell into Alabama..That's a total mess of course..

sAbakumoff 10y ago

The markers on a map are clickable by the way