I'd be interested in the numbers on this. To get a rough number, I typed "data scientist" "San Francisco, CA" into indeed.com and it's reporting 2,832 job list

I'd be interested in the numbers on this. To get a rough number, I typed "data scientist" "San Francisco, CA" into indeed.com and it's reporting 2,832 job listings. So of those 2,832 openings that companies are trying to fill, how many employers are out actively recruiting candidates based on their github profiles? It seems to me that Github / social coding is an interesting mix of networking (the social kind) and coding (which demonstrates abilities), but like most networking, it's only one of many ways into the door, and it's unclear how many of the 2,832 positions will be filled via that particular flavor of networking. My guess is that it's the minority.