Interactive US Job Market Visualizer Tool Using BLS Occupational Data
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andygcook
Crusty in the right places. Worth the chew.
Summary
This article describes a research tool called "US Job Market Visualizer" that provides interactive visualizations of 342 occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook. The tool covers 143 million jobs across the US economy, with each rectangle's area proportional to total employment. Users can toggle between different metrics including BLS projected growth outlook, median pay, education requirements, and AI exposure. The tool is presented as a development tool for exploring BLS data visually rather than a formal economic publication, and includes LLM-powered coloring features in its source code.
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Each rectangle's area is proportional to total employment. Color shows the selected metric — toggle between BLS projected growth outlook, median pay, education requirements, and AI exposure.
This is not a report, a paper, or a serious economic publication — it is a development tool for exploring BLS data visually.
LLM-powered coloring: The source code includes scrapers, parser
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