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+# AugmentX – Job Market Data Platform
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+A data platform designed to collect verified job postings directly from official company career pages, transform them into clean and structured data, and provide transparent insights into job-market demand and skills trends.
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+## Project Principles & Architecture
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+- **Primary Data Source:** Official company career pages and Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS).
+- **Secondary Sources:** Job discovery platforms are used only to identify and locate official company career pages—not as sources for scraping job postings.
+- **Core Technology Stack:** Python, HTTP clients, HTML/JSON parsing, SQLite/PostgreSQL, and Pandas.
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+## Roadmap
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+- **Week 1 – Job Source Identification & Prioritization:** Identify, evaluate, and prioritize official company career pages.
+- **Week 2 – Job Data Collection & Automated Crawlers:** Build automated crawlers to collect job postings from prioritized sources.
+- **Week 3 – Data Cleaning & Deduplication:** Clean, standardize, and remove duplicate job records.
+- **Week 4 – Search Experience & Exploratory Analytics:** Develop a simple job search experience and explore the collected market data.
+- **Week 5 – Market Trends & Skills Analytics:** Extract skills from job postings and analyze demand trends across roles and skills.