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This analysis is wrong. Or at least missing a lot of data.

I personally posted jobs from Edinburgh, Scotland on the Who's Hiring thread of the month (and ended up making two hires from it) in 2012. My most recent post on Who's Hiring was the number one voted post on that particular topic. Not sure how the data was collated, but it's not accurate.

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Hi there, as mentioned in the post it only collected data on the top 25 startup hubs as identified by the Startup Genome Project (ok, and Amsterdam). Edinburgh is not on that list, so I didn't check for it. I did now: in total it's 3 since january 2012.

Note: not sure why, but the data does seem off from time to time. Manual Command-F for San Francisco for this month's hiring finds 26, while data.scan(htmlpage) finds 28...

There's definitely been more than three jobs listed for Edinburgh in January 2012. I'm in Edinburgh and was looking for work most of last year, so I was paying attention at the time!

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