Editing 2020-04-29 Rants on maintaining a job wiki

[[tag:DataScienceJournal]] [[tag:EmacsStuff]] [[tag:OddmuseWiki]] I added some material to the [[https://wikijobs.ragavan.co|Jobs wiki]] today and was trying to decide whether there was any merit in continuing the work. Job descriptions will change, but it would be interesting to see what kind of changes propagate over time. It would also be my own little online flat file database related to the job market. I think there is some merit, if the information is regularly filled in and the information analyzed. If other pages and comments are linked to relevant job descriptions, it may be a good system to review job descriptions and understand what the market is looking for. Other than this, down the line it would be interesting to scrape information off the wiki and perform a text analysis. Perhaps a text analysis is the only way to formulate a true composite, rather than reading through each profile and manually creating a composite. I would like to remind myself that the composite job profile and the methodology of collecting job profiles and formulating a meaningful composite is outlined in the resource from [[https://www.datascienceweekly.org/data-science-guides/data-science-getting-started-guide|Data Science Weekly]]. Based on my experience - I think the books actually do outline practical methods to get started in Data science faster. The fact of the matter is that I did not deeply consider the skills and job profiles required to break into the job market at an early stage of my life. I was more focused on utopian idealistic pursuits of knowledge and thought that this would automatically lead to all that I wanted / needed. There is too much knowledge that is abundantly available nowadays. It was stupid to not consider streamlining this process, just like the multitude of other things that I tried to streamline. For what it is worth, I also think the typical academic curriculum does not focus on this aspect much. The gap between theory / academics and the real world and industry is very large as well as nuanced. The impact of the 'academic doctrine', right from school sort of lingers as an undercurrent even after getting into the industry and experiencing the difference. It seems to take a while to re-orient efforts towards a direction that is aligned with one's soul. This is obviously not to mean that academics are useless. For example, I still consider my masters to be a defining moment and experience in my life. It was one of eye-openers when you realise - what you //do not know//. The next question as usual was the best method to fill in the information. It is extremely tiresome to copy paste content using the web browser and the mouse. I realised today though that it was pleasant to use org-web-tools to download a webpage (this works on most webpages), and then use a quick markdown export of that subheading to paste into a wiki page. I've already been using org-web-tools to download the content of a page to an entry. Each job application I throw out has it's own commit, and each company has it's own branch. More on this some other day, though I think it is among the most efficient setups possible (though of course anything has a scoppe for being improved further). The above method of adding content to wiki pages is a lot more efficient than copy pasting content from a webpage into the wiki using a browser, especially also because the formatting and the links are then lost. In fact, it is a lot more pleasant than even using a hugo based blog. There are still issues though, for example, not all my pages are available when I hit {{{oddmuse-go}}}. I will need to investigate that.

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