Group members:

• Christina Walden
• Sarthak Khillon
• Juan Moreno

Important Files

• Report: Final project report.
• misc/: Experimental scripts, notes, testing, etc.
• phase2/: All code for the phase 2 submission.

Supplementary Scripts

Some of these generate intermediate .RData files which are loaded in other scripts

• generate_env.R
• visa_and_models.R

Shiny App

• global.R: Shared variables, libraries, and functionality.
• server.R: Data processing.
• ui.R: User Interface design.
• DESCRIPTION: App configuration settings.

Data:

• Link: https://www.kaggle.com/gpreda/h-1b-visa-applications
• Description: Contains 5 years of people’s applications for a work-based non-immigrant visa.

There are 3,002,458 observations.

Columns:

• X : int - Row number
• CASE_STATUS: chr - Describes the status of the application after processing
• EMPLOYER_NAME: chr - Name of the employer submitting labor condition application
• SOC_NAME: chr - Occupational name associated with the SOC_CODE. SOC_CODE is a classification code assigned by the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) System.
• JOB_TITLE: chr - Title of the job
• FULL_TIME_POSITION: chr - “Y” = Full Time Position, “N” = Part Time Position
• PREVAILING_WAGE: num - Average wage paid to similarly employed workers in the requested occupation in the area of intended employment
• YEAR: int - Year in which the H-1B visa petition was filed
• WORKSITE: chr - City where the worker intends to be employed
• lon: num - Longitude. Missing is coded as ‘NA’
• lat: num - Latitude. Missing is coded as ‘NA’