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Ten Recession Proof Careers
Parts.Common.Body.Summary.cshtml – The template for summary of a content item's body.In honor of Labor Day, I decided to post this infographic I found via AllTop
Side note: I find it hard to believe carpenters are on their way out. We recently looked at what it would take to re-do our kitchen cabinets. It was not cheap.
Introducing JobsRadar
Parts.Common.Body.Summary.cshtml – The template for summary of a content item's body.What happens when you take open government data, Twitter, Bing maps and Windows 8?
A whole lot of mash up awesome sauce.
I’d like to introduce you to JobsRadar, an app my team has been working on to showcase the use of Windows 8 in the public sector.
As the name implies, the focus of JobsRadar is the current state of the job market in the United States. If you’ve been watching the news, you know that the state of things are not great.
Thanks to this app, you can have a visualization of the unemployment rate right at your fingertips.
Country wide view. Note the unemployment rate graph at the bottom. Very Metro.
With Windows 8, we can leverage the location aware APIs to focus in on the unemployment rate in your location:
If you’d like to look at other aspects of labor related data, we’ve provided those data sets as well.
No mashup app would be complete without a connection to Twitter. Here, we track trends in certain keywords. You can edit and create your own.
The main focus of JobsRadar is jobs, but these data sets could just as easily be any other data set that you’d want overlaid on a map. (aka geo-spatial data sets).
Think about the possibilities.
I hope to make JobsRadar available on CodePlex to provide a starting point for your Windows 8 Metro apps.
In the meantime, get the tools and start building up your Win8 Mojo today.
