Where are the academic jobs? interactive exploration of job advertisements in geospatial and topical space

Authors:
Angela M. Zoss;Michael Conover;Katy Börner
Affiliations:
Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN;School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN;Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Venue:
SBP'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper details a methodology for capturing, analyzing, and communicating one specific type of real time data: advertisements of currently available academic jobs. The work was inspired by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) [2] that provides approximately $100 billion for education, creating a historic opportunity to create and save hundreds of thousands of jobs. Here, we discuss methodological challenges and practical problems when developing interactive visual interfaces to real time data streams such as job advertisements. Related work is discussed, preliminary solutions are presented, and future work is outlined. The presented approach should be valuable to deal with the enormous volume and complexity of social and behavioral data that evolve continuously in real time, and analyses of them need to be communicated to a broad audience of researchers, practitioners, clients, educators, and interested policymakers, as originally suggested by Hemmings and Wilkinson [1].