hn-hiring-mapped
Data
job market visualisation
SHOW HN2013
How HN took it
12 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 6 critical, out of 40 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Execution: 2 for, 6 againstIdea: 4 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful for job hunters and well executed
From 2 comments
Incredibly useful for job hunters and well executed! The map view needs some clever hack to increase readability in popular places like SF and London - maybe a brief description…
eamsen on HNAs a college student looking for an internship at the kind of company who posts on Hacker News, thank you so much. This is great.
Dragonai on HN
Nice visualisation
From 2 comments
Nice visualisation, thanks for sharing. Perhaps add the option to reset the view, as currently have to rerun the search.
_puk on HNThis is quite an amazing interface, very cool indeed!
tunnuz on HN
Objections
Missing posts and locations, e.g. Seattle case-sensitivity and Portland
From 2 comments
My Seattle post is missing from the map, so the accuracy is questionable.
DenisM on HNWhy is Portland not marked ? There is at least 1 job opening posted for that location.
arjn on HN
Dense cities like SF and London are hard to read on the map
From 1 comment
Incredibly useful for job hunters and well executed! The map view needs some clever hack to increase readability in popular places like SF and London - maybe a brief description…
eamsen on HN
Coverage gaps in Asia, Latin America, Africa and Southern Europe
From 3 comments
Part of it is the source code. It specifically scans for keywords such as SoMA and associates it with SF. Other countries / states / cities get no such special treatment. Made me…
Poleris on HNQuite similar to the GitHub map from a few days ago[1], i.e. no Latin America, (almost)no Asia, no Africa. [1] http://aasen.in/github_globe/
sker on HNNo Portugal, Italy or Greece as well.
abhishivsaxena on HN
Requests
Show a list of roles per area
From 1 comment
Seconded being able to see all the roles in an area as a list would be really usefull.
walshemj on HN
Add a reset view option
From 1 comment
Nice visualisation, thanks for sharing. Perhaps add the option to reset the view, as currently have to rerun the search.
_puk on HN
Support freelancer and 'available for hire' posts
From 2 comments
Can you do the same for HN's "Who's available for hire" monthly posts?
prakster on HNIt would be awesome to see this for the freelancer / seeking freelance posts too.
Imagenuity on HN
Questions
Why is China not included?
From 1 comment
why not include China?
muyun_ on HN
Does it only parse the first line of posts?
From 1 comment
I'be been building a command line Perl app Gutsy https://github.com/gryftir/gutsy to parse Who is Hiring and export to text/html, but this certainly displays a lot nicer. The one…
lsiebert on HN
Alternatives named
Curated HN Hiring
From 1 comment
Creator of curatedhnhiring.com here. This is good stuff. I'm going to hand enter all the locations for October tonight, but you can compare your auto-generated September data…
perspectivezoom on HN
GitHub globe map by aasen.in
From 1 comment
Quite similar to the GitHub map from a few days ago[1], i.e. no Latin America, (almost)no Asia, no Africa. [1] http://aasen.in/github_globe/
sker on HN