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Optimizing my search for Data scientist jobs by scraping Indeed with R

R
Web scraping
EDA
NLP
A few weeks ago, I started looking for a data scientist position in industry. My first moves were:
Sep 21, 2022
Aurelien Callens

Analysis of the top R packages

R
EDA
After a little while coding in Python every day for my work, I needed to make a break and perform some R analysis! Since the beginning of my postdoc, I haven’t followed the…
Jul 19, 2022
Aurelien Callens

Can R and Shiny make me a better fisherman? Part 4

Exploratory analysis on my fishing data (shiny and plotly)
R
Shiny
EDA
In this post, I explore the data I have collected during the last year with the updated version of the application (presented here). This quick exploratory analysis…
Apr 12, 2022
Aurélien Callens

The end of my PhD journey

Two weeks ago, I defended my thesis entitled ‘Statistical learning for coastal risks assessment’ in front of an academic jury. The defense went extremely well and the jury…
Oct 2, 2021
Aurelien Callens

Can R and Shiny make me a better fisherman? Part 3

Updating my application
R
Shiny
Web scraping
In this previous post, I presented the shiny application I developed to record…
Jun 1, 2021
Aurélien Callens

Coastal risks and statistical learning: Analyzing Google trends with gtrendsR package

R
EDA
I am currently in the third year of my PhD and it is time for me to synthesize all the work I have done by writing my thesis. One important step is the introduction which…
Mar 3, 2021
Aurélien Callens

 

Webscraping Aliexpress with Rselenium

R
Web scraping
Today, I am going to show you how to scrape product prices from Aliexpress website.
Nov 18, 2020
Aurelien Callens

Can R and Shiny make me a better fisherman? Part 2

Exploratory analysis on my fishing data
R
EDA
In the previous blog…
Sep 25, 2020
Aurélien Callens

Can R and Shiny make me a better fisherman? Part 1

Building a shiny application to store my fishing data
R
Shiny
Web scraping
My favorite hobby, in addition to R coding of course, is fishing. Most of the time, I fish European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in estuaries. The sea bass is a predatory fish that has a broad range of preys: crabs, sand eels, prawns, shrimps and other fish. To catch these predators, I don’t use…
Sep 12, 2020
Aurélien Callens
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