Data Show and Tell: Data Analysis for Fake Job Posts
by Ed Freitas
Learn how to analyze job posts using Python to detect potentially fake listings. This course covers a practical project teaching data analysis, feature engineering, and rule-based classification skills to flag suspicious patterns effectively.
What you'll learn
Fake job postings are a growing challenge on online platforms, misleading job seekers and compromising trust. This course, Data Show and Tell: Data Analysis for Fake Job Posts, demonstrates how to tackle this issue using data analysis.
You’ll learn how to extract meaningful features from job descriptions, apply rule-based logic to flag suspicious patterns, and visualize results to validate your findings.
By the end of this course, you’ll have built a functional system that identifies potentially fake job posts, showcasing how Python can be used to solve real-world problems and protect users from fraud.
About the author
Eduardo is a technology enthusiast, software architect and customer success advocate. He's designed enterprise .NET solutions that extract, validate and automate critical business processes such as Accounts Payable and Mailroom solutions for all types of organizations. He's designed and supported production systems for global names such as Coca Cola, Enel, Pirelli, Fiat-Chrysler, Xerox and many others. He's a well-known specialist in the Enterprise Content Management market segment, specifically... more focusing on data capture & extraction and document process automation.
He designed a supplier invoice processing system for Agfa that achieved 50% straight-through processing (50% of invoices extracted from paper, validated and exported into SAP without any human validation). He's also loves to write about cutting-edge technologies. He loves helping customers succeed. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family and being outdoors. He loves running and sports.