Clean Employee Data

impacted dataset clean employee data impacted formats all available formats impacted delivery starting with may 2025 delivery impact new field and collections adding new collections and fields we're adding the collections that were on high demand, and the publicly provided profile id in the root of each employee record we captured root level action data point data type description added added public profile id string publicly provided employee urn collections action collection name data type added added patents array of structs added added publications array of structs added added organizations array of structs see code snippet for reference { "member public profile id" "123456789", "member organizations" \[ { "organization" "example organization", "position" "lead software engineer", "description" "led a team of developers providing great services ", "date from" "2019 06", "date from year" 2019, "date from month" 6, "date to" "2023 09", "date to year" 2023, "date to month" 9, "order in profile" 1 } ], "member patents" \[ { "title" "data synchronization system", "status" "granted", "inventors" \[ { "full name" "john doe", "profile url" "https //www professional network com/profile/johndoe", "order in profile" 1 }, { "full name" "jane smith", "profile url" "https //www professional network com/profile/janesmith", "order in profile" 2 } ], "date" "2022 01 01", "date year" 2022, "date month" 1, "date day" 1, "patent url" "https //wwww patents example com/us1234567", "description" "a method for efficient synchronization of distributed systems in real time environments ", "patent or application number" "us1234567b2", "order in profile" 1 } ], "member publications" \[ { "title" "microservices architecture in cloud environments", "publisher" "journal of software systems", "date" "2024 08 01", "date year" 2024, "date month" 8, "date day" 1, "description" "an in depth analysis of architectural patterns and scalability challenges in cloud native microservices ", "authors" \[ { "full name" "john doe", "profile url" "https //www professional network com/profile/johndoe", "order in profile" 1 } ], "publication url" "https //www publications example com/microservices architecture", "order in profile" 1 } ] } experience updates we have been reviewing more aggregation updates to improve the data freshness and tackle stale experiences older hidden experience records were not marked as deleted=1 since the main target was the primary hidden experience (the first record) we have updated logic to mark the experiences that cannot be found anymore or do not aggregate as deleted=1 older aggregation logic did not update the records with date to when the new experience would come up some experience location fields were inferred with company headquarters data if the record showed empty values – these locations have been removed for the moment, as some mismatches were found, leading to more questions instead of insights cleaning operations html tag removal we are removing html tags from description fields throughout the dataset cleaning operation affected field html tags removed experience description education description summary awards description patents description publications description projects description organizations description