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Derived field

A column computed by the scraper from what the source published, rather than read from a field the source provides.

A derived field is only honest when the raw input to the derivation ships beside it, so the derivation can be checked instead of trusted. Deriving a value the source deliberately does not state — a match status, a parsed salary range — is often the most useful thing a scraper does and the easiest place for it to be quietly wrong.

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