How does Datapeople track revisions?

When comparing changes in a document, it's crucial to strike a balance between usability and thoroughness. While it's quite easy to identify even the smallest alterations between two pieces of text using computational methods, this level of detail can make change tracking tools more challenging to use. Datapeople's approach, on the other hand, is to highlight only the significant changes, ignoring minor elements such as extra spaces or formatting adjustments.

In simpler terms, a "change" encompasses any difference between two pieces of text, whereas a "revision" in Datapeople exclusively displays substantial modifications.

How does Datapeople define a significant change?

A change is defined as significant by analyzing the core job description content, such as job title, company name, location, and job description. To create a revision, our system sets the threshold that the content of the job and specifically the alphanumeric characters are altered. This means that formatting details such as additional spaces, carriage returns or styling changes (e.g. bold or italics) do not count towards revisions.

This approach keeps things clean and prevents a customer from ending up with hundreds of revisions for tiny changes that don’t really matter. We only log big changes that affect the content as a revision.

What happens to my job if I make minor formatting changes?

We save these changes and associate them with the latest revision. This ensures that the job content always reflects the most up-to-date and accurate version, without the complication of minor changes cluttering the revision history comparison feature.