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, […]
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 […]
As a Bright employee, I constantly get asked the question, “What does Bright do?” The unofficial company line goes, “We try to make hiring more efficient.” While that’s an entirely accurate statement that acts as the guiding light for all we do, it’s a bit of an oversimplification. As a Bright Data Scientist, I think about […]
The US economy created a sluggish 131,000 jobs in February, according to our Data Science team at Bright.com – even fewer than January’s 189,000 jobs, and it doesn’t appear that a recovery is on the way any time soon. A CNN article reports that $85 billion in federal budget cuts, set to take place today […]
