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# April 2020 Release Notes

| Release Name | Dataset Version | Publish Date |
| :----------- | :-------------- | :----------- |
| April 2020   | `v10.0`         | 04/08/2020   |

*Released on 4/08/2020*

### Freshness

* This quarter we have refreshed job titles for over **175mm** of our global profiles and locations for over **160mm**.
* Similarly, we have refreshed job titles for over **50mm** of our US profiles and locations for over **60mm**.

### Coverage Increase

* We've updated and increased our coverage of the `linkedin_connections` beta field for over *100mm* records.
* We've improved our coverage of historical `experience` and `education`, as well as all three of the `summaries` beta fields.

### Data Field Changes

* We've added two new fields -- `experience.company.location.street_address` and `primary.job.company.location.street_address`. This represents the HQ location of the company and should help with matching our canonicalized company data to other company sources.
* We've made modifications to the `experience.title.levels` field. The enumerable values for the field have changed and can be referenced in our canonical data [(link - **deprecated**)](https://pdl-canonical-data.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/person/v10.0/experience.title.levels.txt). While the tagging logic has mostly remained the same, the `cxo` level should see some net lift and the `manager` level should slightly decrease due to some logical improvements. We've also added lower `levels` including `senior`, `junior`, and `unpaid`.
* We've begun to do some basic pre-processing on the `experience.title.name` field to improve merging and help with standardization. These changes are mainly around mapping abbreviations and stripping punctuation and should be non-destructive. We have also added an `experience.title.raw` field which is available to license customers upon request.
* The `birth_date_fuzzy` field will now have the same year as the `birth_date` field instead of being blank when a `birth_date` exists.
* We are now exposing the `experience.company.id` and `education.school.id` fields by default. This allows for easy linkage with our canonical company data [(link - **deprecated**)](https://pdl-canonical-data.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/person/v10.0/company.json) and canonical school data [(link - **deprecated**)](https://pdl-canonical-data.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/person/v10.0/school.json). As of now these ids do *not* persist between versions of the canonical data.
* Our highly confident mobile phones are now tagged as `phone_numbers.type = mobile`
* `experience.company.linkedin_size` has been renamed to `experience.company.size`

### Improvements

* We made improvements to fuzzy company canonicalization to avoid generic matches.
* We've updated our canonical company data and made some additions. We are now providing two files: `company_vx.0` which contains the information exposed in the person data and `company_vx.0_full` which contains additional fields.
* We removed two sources that exceeded our maximum threshold for frankenstein records (>1% instance rate).

### Bug fixes

* Stripped out invalid/temporary email providers like dummy.com.
* We removed a data source that was providing incorrect // generic skill information.
* We removed null bytes from summary data.
* A small subset of linkedin profile URLs were being incorrectly parsed to be blank -- which is now fixed.
* Included punctuation for the skill `.net` (instead of `net`).
* Fixed a scenario where an `experience` object would show up as a `primary.job`, but not in the `experience` array.
* Fixed merging issues with `education` objects where there were erroneous compounding merges.

### Data Delivery Formats

* We can now deliver the data license updates in Parquet format. If you would like to receive this, please let us know!


## Related topics

- [October 2020 Release Notes](/changelog/q3-2020-release-notes.md)
- [April 2021 Release Notes](/changelog/april-2021-release-notes.md)
- [January 2020 Release Notes](/changelog/q1_2020-changelog.md)
- [July 2020 Release Notes](/changelog/q2-2020-release-notes.md)
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