[listenallyall]

> the market is nowhere near saturation

Need to show > publications, conference appearances/posters, generated data products/pipelines, and contributions to relevant software.

These appear to be in conflict. If companies need people with such skills, they can't just hope to get the elite few who present at conferences, they need to be hiring among the audience members as well. If they are in fact just hiring the speakers, then the jobs aren't really "bountiful"

[mturmon]

> are publications AND/OR conference appearances/posters AND/OR generated data products/pipelines AND/OR contributions to relevant software. (For me, in that approximate order.)

^--- Taps sign

The above does not imply that I'd only consider conference speakers, right? (Although, there are a lot of conferences!) For some roles, contributions to relevant software would be the right standard.

[listenallyall]

I consolidated for brevity's sake, how could you not realize that. You are still talking about only considering the 1-3% (of conference speakers, article publishers, contributors to popular repos, pipeline generators) not the other 97-99% of audience members, article readers, users of those repos, pipeline consumers.

Is that clearer? Same exact point. Tap tap.