Friday, April 12, 2013

Exploring 2013 PMF Finalist Data

Just for fun, I've been playing with the finalist data. Here are some ways of visualizing it, using Google Fusion Tables, which seems to have gained some features and lost others since I began playing with it a couple years ago.

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First let's look at top 10 degrees:



Second, top 10 Universities:



One of the newer features is one where we can explore the links between data elements. This one is for the link between University and Degree:



Next up, we can map out the locations of the schools, in case anyone wants to explore that way.



And last, but not least, your breakdown of Veterans' Preference.



Anything else you'd like to see?

16 comments:

  1. Awesome, I really like the networking map... did you use the VUE software or Excel has such features now?

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  2. Thanks for posting this! How did you know people's degrees? I thought the list only contained name of universities

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  3. @Anis: I just used Google Fusion Tables, a product that's still in Labs, but that I hope graduates eventually because it rocks.

    @Maham: The finalist list shows name, school, degree, veterans' preference (yes/no), and will show appointment status as they are made and updated in the system. For my purposes, since there's no way to mine this list in its final state, I just grab the initial one and do my analysis on it.

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  4. Aaron, I was thinking maybe we should do some things to provide a better picture for those interested and involved in the PMF program for the following years. First, maybe we should post every job that gets posted in the TAS from its launch to the last day we are allowed to get appointed, in this case 7 April 2014. Then, unless instructed otherwise by the Agency, everyone who applies for a positions annotates it, and they keep updating it with any new events such as contacts, additional interviews, rejection, acceptance and of course a final appointment. Also, those who withdraw because they got other jobs and those who do not meet eligibility requirement and get dropped from the program post in a separate thread. This will allow you to make more comprehensive charts and timelines displaying how positions and number of applicants appointed progresses. It will also compiling statistics for everything. The current class and future applicants will have better understanding of how everything is progressing which would definitely lower the anxiety level. This of course entails active participation from us finalists. I did a name search for last years finalists and was able to actually identify where many of the finalists were assigned, additionally I found that some finalists who are not PMF's are currently working in law firms, PhD candidates, or have some good jobs elsewhere.

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    1. I likr your thinking. Would you want to try to collect the data? I can give you access to the Google Drive where I'm storing this stuff if you like.

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    2. As soon as I'm done with typing my thesis and another research paper I'll look into that.

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    3. Thank you Anis for posting this information. As a 2012 BLM PMF in Ely, NV, I'm part of the DOI PMF Group and we've had several discussions about finding PMF alumni that are in the program. We're interested in this information for the obvious reason that it would increase networking opportunities and provide for insight into the experiences PMFs gain at different agencies. If your research is ever extensive enough to find out information on PMF alumni we'd be very interested in knowing more about it. For example, a 2007 PMF alumni I interviewed with recently is now a GS-15! This makes me think that the Program has inherent strengths and the more we know about alumni such as this the better prepared we are for what lies ahead. Thanks again for posting this information.

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    4. Also, I forgot to mention as one more point of interest, there's a Google Doc Spreadsheet we've compiled so far of DOI PMFs and where they're serving. Here's where it's located.

      https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av-mm6uuCtPddFBvTm9xWmJNck1nMUVIVlFVVmliclE#gid=0

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  6. It is a virtual job fair Karen.....You won't need to leave your house.

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    1. I am a 2013 finalist.......Didn't you get an email about all this?

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  8. Karen, I tried to look up some info about this virtual fair and there are some videos out there... here are some helpful links:
    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvod26_ciw-virtual-medical-career-fair-tutorial_tech#.UXcvi7WG3Qc

    This one was contracted by Veterans Recruiting Services they got over 20 videos
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMU_NBM4dng

    Hmmm, they even doing this in Australia
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfQruAOpipw

    This is most likely the company that is running the VJF
    http://www.on24.com/products/virtual-environments/

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  9. Thank you Anis, this was very helpful.

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  10. Hi Aaron. Thanks so much for doing this. These charts are really interesting. One thing I noticed and I think it's a strange problem with how the data are reported is that some schools are reported with the law school lumped in (American University) and some have it separated (George Washington). If you combine the schools from the various universities, the Top 10 Universities chart will likely change. As is, I believe the 19 from AU are from the entire university but GW University has 15 and GW University Law School has 10. GW will rank first if comparison is full university to full university.

    But again, thanks for doing this; this is really great.

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