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Job Locations for July Who's Hiring Thread
- phillijw 15y agoAs 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.
- Shenglong 15y agoBeautiful 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!
- paulitex 15y agolink to hiring thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2719028 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2719028
- icey 15y agoIt would be awesome to see something like this that tracked the frequency of languages / frameworks desired over time.
- paulitex 15y agoMaybe 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: <see below> } 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&hl=en&ll=49.273629,-123.097&spn=0.228031,0.617294&sll=49.891235,-97.15369&sspn=28.909861,79.013672&t=h&z=11&iwloc=A 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.
- gnosis 15y agoThat reminds me of Geek Code: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Geekcode https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Geekcode Also, it would be great if HN allowed articles and comments to be tagged.
- walexander 15y agoIt 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.
- jleader 15y agoNot 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.
- sciurus 15y agoThere is a job in "boston ma." mistakenly placed on the map at Macon, Ga.
- a3camero 15y agoHey, Vancouver's in Waterloo and Waterloo's underwater along the border with the US. Geocoding problem?
- wbills 15y agoYeah looks like there were a few bad geocodes that I didn't catch. paulitex's idea further down about a standard format for these things would be really nice to see b/c parsing out the locations in some cases was kind of a mess.
- a3camero 15y agoIt often is... Geocoding is a fun game. I recently did a project with just geocoding in Ontario and it took a while to fix all the various cases for the 600+ volunteer-entered locations. Bonus points: only some (and different) geographical information was available for each address. Postal codes/zip would be ideal for this.
- jorgeortiz85 15y agoAnecdotally, New York feels like a vibrant, budding startup scene. It's cool to see the data corroborate that. New York had as many job postings as Palo Alto and Mountain View combined.
- Aloisius 15y agoscratches head Comparing the city of New York with two small towns doesn't make a lot of sense. Just from a geographical point of view, comparing it against the entire San Francisco Bay Area would be far more apt comparison. I suppose comparing just Manhattan to San Francisco proper would also work.
- sylvinus 15y agowould be nice not to have the map boxed on the US... there are also dots outside.