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Show HN: Unschooler predicts future career by analyzing YouTube
We created an experimental feature that predicts a future career by analyzing Youtube preferences.
Our main goal is to help young people find their passion. Every teenager we spoke to mentioned Youtube as a learning source. Suddenly we realized that YouTube contains all information about interests, learning history, and answer search, underneath which lies their unique purpose. However, most parents don't know how to apply these interests to their teens' future careers.
We came up with the idea to translate interests from Youtube into the career language and predict the probable specialization on the single Skills Map.
How it works:
1. We analyze interests on Youtube and predict suitable specializations with Skills Map.
2. People try real daily tasks of the recommended professions for 1 week. Every task updates the skills Map and prediction.
From the beginning, we compared the data with a control group of our friends, who had already known their passion. We are still in the process of filling the skills database, but we already see precise matches for our users, despite missing some particular areas:
— Our designer's map matched his passion for 3D and generative graphics — https://unschooler.me/profile/alexander-dovksha-1102 https://unschooler.me/profile/alexander-dovksha-1102
— This man is a software developer, and our algorithm showed us this before we even knew him — https://unschooler.me/profile/alexey-klimko-1034 https://unschooler.me/profile/alexey-klimko-1034
— Our social media manager leans more toward Design than Marketing — https://unschooler.me/profile/4nNgEXpj5TR5UDV9TxT7Wp0uTkG2-1733 https://unschooler.me/profile/4nNgEXpj5TR5UDV9TxT7Wp0uTkG2-1...
— This girl is learning cosmetics from a chemistry perspective - however, our data showed her real passion and aptitude: interacting with people around these cosmetic topics — https://unschooler.me/profile/liliya-bohdan-1149 https://unschooler.me/profile/liliya-bohdan-1149
Test your skills https://unschooler.me/skills https://unschooler.me/skills and share your opinion about the results with a link to your profile here, in the comments. Share this link with young people who are choosing a future profession or do not know what they are interested in.
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- eurasiantiger 4y ago”you authorize us to collect and use the following data: your first and last name, email address, phone number, and personal photos” Excuse me?
- doraby 4y agoYes, we use standard firebase auth service and display the avatar and profile name. This is my profile https://unschooler.me/profile/lena-dorogenskaya-1578 https://unschooler.me/profile/lena-dorogenskaya-1578. Also, under the hood we are analyzing tags of videos that users liked. Without this, the prediction is impossible. Actually, I don’t know how photos appeared in the scope, it must be a mistake or default settings. We will fix it.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoIt is not a mistake of application scope settings. The text is in your privacy policy, verbatim.
- doraby 4y agoI see. In this case, it only applies to the profile picture or avatar.
- eurasiantiger 4y agoYou have to understand everything in this looks like a Russian play to harvest personal data, likely in an effort to create more believable puppet accounts on social media. Can you at least confirm this is the case and not try to play it off like it wasn’t?
- doraby 4y agoInteresting thought, thanks for sharing. But I disagree, it doesn't look like that. I can confirm that we are not Russian and use the Google firebase authentication service with default settings, like Canva, Figma, Miro and any other online tool on the Internet.
- gZdJNc5C 4y agoHow do I delete my account?
- gZdJNc5C 4y agoI understand the good intentions so please remove my first and last name and my personal picture from your website right now. It would be a wise idea to provide a function to edit or remove those informations before offering this to the public.
- doraby 4y agoSend us a request with your email to info@unschooler.me. Or just send a message to the chat on any page.
- jacooper 4y agoLooks good!, It would be better if the service didn't require data it didn't need like First name/ Last name / profile photo. These are not relevant to what the service is offering right?
- doraby 4y agoYes, absolutely. I just realized that removing this information would even be beneficial. Actually, I'm removing it right now :)
- alex1212 4y agoI am just here to give you a nice big pat on the back for making something interesting. I see you are getting a lot of comments about data and privacy, best of luck with these.