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 […]
Bright’s monthly job opening analysis estimates 171,000 jobs created in April of 2013, many of which are in the ever-growing tech and healthcare industries. This is a slight decrease over last month’s job growth, but still an overall positive sign of recovery. With a 3.8% growth in tech jobs since the beginning of the year, […]
Hiring an effective lawyer has far more to do with personality, past behavior, and situational judgment than an LSAT (Law School Admission Test) score or undergraduate GPA, according to a study by Dr. Sheldon Zedeck of UC Berkeley and Dr. Marjorie Schultz of Berkeley Law. Before reviewing the study, an explanation of the LSAT is […]
Employment increased by 223,000 jobs in March, according to the Bright Employment Report, led by the tech and healthcare industries. This is slightly more optimistic than the 88,000 jobs predicted by the BLS this morning, but neither estimate would indicate that jobs are getting back to pre-recession levels anytime soon. CNN reported today that we’ve […]
