There is a high level of remedially about this. For a starters, if you're trying to make it in a profession you should already be keenly aware of these things, if you are not, you should be doing proper research and conversing with other real humans who are experts as, through that method you gain considerably more than just this list.

I can't think that producing a new abstraction of a signal that was already readily available in a way that is less information rich not more, is a good way to be competitive in the job market. Basically: it's lazy and encourages others to be lazy, and it's lazy in the worst kind of way (lazy that seems it isn't).