[OC] Visualizing Top Product Management Skills in 2024

Visualizing 2024’s top product managment skills within job posting qualifications. This visualization reveals the natural topology of modern product management skills using actual job market data. Each cluster represents related skills that frequently appear together in job postings. It’s fascinating that product management skills naturally organized themselves into something that looks like a finished product design.

Data:
1K+ distinct skills analyzed
200K+ unique job posting contexts
Focus on U.S. product management job postings posted on Indeed

Technical Stack:
▪️ Sentence transformers (all-mpnet-base-v2) → skill embeddings
▪️ UMAP → dimensional reduction
▪️ HDBSCAN → cluster detection
▪️ Ollama (Falcon3:10b) → cluster naming
▪️ DataMapPlot → interactive visualization

umap_params = {
            ‘n_neighbors’: 40,
            ‘n_components’: 2,
            ‘min_dist’: 0.1,
            ‘metric’: ‘cosine’
        }
hdbscan_params = {
            ‘min_cluster_size’: 50,
            ‘max_cluster_size’: 20000,
            ‘min_samples’: 15
        }