H1B Visa Application Analysis

This analysis aim to help the international data science students strategize job search, through an analysis of H1B visa data of 3 million observations from 2014 to 2018.

The datasets used come from the Department of Labor's website. We collected five year's worth of H-1B petition data (2014 to 2018). There are over 3,000,000 observations in total.

The final report could be found here: Final Report: H1B Visa Analysis

The slides could be found here: Slides

Code Usage

1. Extract the file transformed.rar manully in the ./data/ and save the file transformed.csv in the ./data/
2. Run the notebook import-feature-engineering.Rmd
3. Run the final_report.Rmd with file as needed

Report Content

H1B

• Requirements
• Why is H1B Popular?
• Caveats
• H1B Historic Timeline

Exploration

• Purpose
• Dataset
• Number of Applications Per State

STEM

• Top Jobs In STEM in 2018

Data Related Jobs Trends

• Prevailing Wages Per Data Related Job Category
• Story Behind Infosys
• Top Tech Companies
• IBM
• Other Consulting Companies

Locations for Data-Related Jobs

• Nationwide Overview
• Regions of the United States
• The Western United States
• The Northeastern United States
• The Midwestern United States
• State of Tennessee

Conclusions