Data is Beautiful

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A place to share and discuss visual representations of data: Graphs, charts, maps, etc.

DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are an important part of information visualization, but pretty pictures are not the sole aim of this subreddit.

A place to share and discuss visual representations of data: Graphs, charts, maps, etc.

  A post must be (or contain) a qualifying data visualization.

  Directly link to the original source article of the visualization
    Original source article doesn't mean the original source image. Link to the full page of the source article as a link-type submission.
    If you made the visualization yourself, tag it as [OC]

  [OC] posts must state the data source(s) and tool(s) used in the first top-level comment on their submission.

  DO NOT claim "[OC]" for diagrams that are not yours.

  All diagrams must have at least one computer generated element.

  No reposts of popular posts within 1 month.

  Post titles must describe the data plainly without using sensationalized headlines. Clickbait posts will be removed.

  Posts involving American Politics, or contentious topics in American media, are permissible only on Thursdays (ET).

  Posts involving Personal Data are permissible only on Mondays (ET).

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My search for a software development job in 2025 (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago by deegeese@sopuli.xyz to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.world

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Context: Searching for a new senior level software development job over a 9 week period in summer 2025.

Focused mostly on data engineering and backend roles that are in-person or hybrid in the SF Bay Area.
Leads from recruiters on LinkedIn were much more likely to lead to interviews+offers.
The winning offer came through my personal network.
I mostly used Hiring.cafe for prospecting. They're a scraper with an interface I didn't hate.

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[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

PDF is a typesetting format. Behind the scenes, every letter is placed on the page at a specific x,y coordinate. parsing text out of a pdf is essentially a series of guesses. sometimes the algorithm guesses wrong. PDF was invented for perfect layouts for printing.

Word docs are a text-based format. It's very easy to correctly pull text from a Word doc.

Why risk an ai parsing a pdf incorrectly? There is no upside.

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