The great thing about being a data scientist at Bright is that we have more employment data than just about anyone (nearing 100 million job descriptions and 10’s of millions of resumes). Our primary mission is to use that data to help people find jobs. One of the trends we observe is that job seekers […]
The contentious immigration bill lingering in Congress has sparked new debate regarding the H-1B visa program. The H-1B program authorizes the temporary employment of qualified individuals, who are not otherwise authorized to work in the United States, to employers who cannot obtain needed business skills and abilities from the U.S. workforce. There have been many […]
Bright estimates 172,000 jobs were created in June 2013, reflecting the persistently slow job growth in the United States. See the map below for details on where these jobs are being created. The housing sector, in particular, is making strides; sales of new homes rose 2.1% in May, reaching the highest levels in nearly five years. To […]
Bright’s monthly jobs analysis estimates 177,000 jobs created in May 2013. Rather than slipping further, job creation appears to have recovered nearer the levels seen around the beginning of 2013. This month’s data reiterates the growth of jobs in the healthcare and technology industries. The number of jobs in the technology sector has grown a substantial […]
Natural Language Processing (NLP) projects are some of my favorite things to work on here at Bright. There is a big open source community in NLP with lots of out-of-the-box code, like the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) project. There’s also a lot of data to play with, like Google’s Ngram corpus that includes centuries of […]
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