June 2024 is a Minor ReleaseSince January 2022, PDL has been releasing data updates every month with a major release every quarter. Minor releases typically contain fewer product updates or key changes, but still contain important data improvements.
❗Breaking Changes
⚠️ Upcoming Breaking Changes
⚠️ Deprecation of person.job_last_updated
Change expected in: July 2024Previous Announcements: April 2024, May 2024 As part of our new resume timestamps that were released last quarter, we will be deprecating our existing
job_last_updated field in the July 2024 release. Our newly released resume timestamps provide more granularity and clarity than our existing job_last_updated timestamp, and help resolve ambiguity in the freshness of a person’s current work experience.
Any customers currently using our job_last_updated field will need to migrate to the new job_last_verified and job_last_changed fields before that release.
For help moving over to the new field, please reach out to your Customer Success and Technical Services for support and enablement resources. Please also see this easy-to-follow guide prepared by our Technical Services team for instructions on how to transition to this new schema:
Breaking Changes Guide: Deprecation of job_last_updated
⚠️ New Role and Sub Role Job Title Taxonomy
Change expected in: October 2024Previous Announcements: April 2024, May 2024 In our October release we will be making significant changes to our
job_title_role and job_title_sub_role enum values in order to improve our tag fill rates and improve the categories we use to represent titles. We’ll be posting a formal breaking change notice and updated canonical values alongside the July release.
🚀 Data Updates
June 2024 is a Minor ReleaseAs a reminder, June 2024 is a minor release. This means that the information reported below is based off of the last one month of updates (rather than the 3 months of updates we typically report for the major releases).
Freshness
The number of jobs and locations verified in our datasets over the past month (based on thejob_last_verified and location_last_updated fields).
Job Updates
The number of person records where the primary job experience changed in our Person Dataset over the past month (based on thejob_last_changed field).
Commentary
- There were no significant coverage changes from May to June
🛠 Improvements and Bug Fixes
Improvements
- Made improvements to our domain selection waterfall in our IP Enrichment API to prioritize first-party observed data
- Cleaned up job titles from legacy sources that included location information
- Removed parsing of indeterministic abbreviations in our job title tagging logic (e.g. CDO → Chief Design Officer vs Chief Data Officer)
- Improved the quality of our school websites through improving the website selection logic during our data build process
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug stemming from a race-condition in our Company Cleaner and Enrichment APIs that was causing occasionally incorrect company matches when using name as the only input