Bright launched three years ago with an audacious vision: to use data science to enable the labor market to operate more efficiently. This afternoon, we announced that we will be acquired by LinkedIn. We started this business in the shadow of the worst recession of our generation. We heard stories of talented people applying to […]
Bright data scientist Jolo Balbin is part of the team that develops and refines the Bright Score. But when he’s not doing that, he’s got another little thing going … TextTeaser, an online article summarizer he created after formulated an automatic summarization algorithm. It’s been getting notice recently, including this cool piece on Tech in Asia. […]
The past couple of weeks have seen a media frenzy over the technical difficulties with the rollout of healthcare.gov. Politicians have jumped on the opportunity to turn what is in essence a botched product rollout into a story about broken promises and failed policy. But is that really what the story is about? I suggest […]
Bright’s latest jobs report estimates that the job market grew by 149,000 jobs during October 2013. This follows the creation of 164,000 jobs in September (Bright’s estimate). The BLS estimated a payroll rise of 148,000 jobs in September, while ADP estimated September job growth at 166,000 jobs. Read the complete Bright Employment Report for October […]
At Bright, we were addicted to AWS spot instances. Step 1: We admitted we were powerless over our addiction — that our lives had become unmanageable. For many of our dynamic workloads, we utilize AWS autoscaling groups to allocate computing resources. Example tasks that need to scale include resume parsing, job parsing, and our Bright Score calculations. […]
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