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Ask HN: I have 10,259 Fortune 500 job listings. What should I do?
6 points by parm289 on Dec 3, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments
Hi all --

As part of a study I'm working on, I've built a multitude of web scrapers to download job listings from a group of Fortune 500 companies. The listings are saved in plaintext, separated by industry, company, and job, are generally clean, and contain job titles, descriptions, qualifications, responsibilities, and locations.

I figure these files could be used for machine learning, further studies on the language used in job listings, or by people looking to build intelligent job search bots. The cache is large -- >20mb I believe. Where would be the best place to offer the files (in terms of visibility and usefulness)? Is this something that is commercially valuable? If so, where are collections like these usually sold?

Thanks!




Build a service that automatically applies to all of them, and charge millennials $125 for use.


Dropbox? I don't know if it would be commercially valuable unless you gave analytics with it. I know I would be interested in it, but I'm not sure I would pay for it.


Just curious -- what analytics would you be interested in seeing?


Share it with everybody. You cannot sell it for sure. But there are people that will enjoy playing with it.


Go talk to Bright.com. They are doing the same thing.




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