YT - LinkedIn Job Data Analysis
YT - LinkedIn Job Data Analysis
Project Overview:
This project aims to go beyond generic e-commerce or sales data analysis by focusing on
LinkedIn job data. As an aspiring data analyst, this project is tailored to provide you with
useful insights into the job market, helping you gain an edge as a candidate while
showcasing your technical skills.
Objectives:
● Analyze LinkedIn job data to uncover insights like job distribution by location, top
hiring companies, and required skills frequency.
● Develop a personalized narrative around the project to make it more engaging and
relatable.
● Implement the project using web scraping, data analysis, and visualization
techniques.
Roadmap Steps:
● Goal: Create a story that ties into the struggles of job-seeking as an aspiring data
analyst. The project will not only demonstrate your skills but also provide you with
actionable insights for your own job search.
● Outcome: A personalized project that resonates with recruiters and showcases your
understanding of the job market.
● Library: BeautifulSoup
● Goal: Instead of downloading pre-existing datasets from Kaggle, scrape real-time job
data from LinkedIn.
● Action Items:
○ Identify the LinkedIn job search pages to scrape.
○ Use BeautifulSoup to extract job titles, locations, companies, required skills,
etc.
● Outcome: A local dataset containing raw LinkedIn job data.
3. Data Storage
● Option 1: Store the scraped data in a local file (e.g., CSV format).
● Option 2: Store the data in a local database for more efficient querying (e.g.,
SQLite).
● Outcome: The data is stored and ready for analysis.
4. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
● Library: Pandas
● Goal: Perform an exploratory data analysis to uncover key insights such as:
○ Job distribution by location
○ Top hiring companies
○ Required skills frequency analysis
● Action Items:
○ Clean the data, handling missing or inconsistent values.
○ Create descriptive statistics and visualizations for the insights above.
● Outcome: Cleaned and analyzed dataset, with preliminary insights ready for
visualization.