Fall Research Expo 2022

Occupations in the US

  • Converted text descriptions of US occupations in Occupational Outlook Handbooks from 1998 to 2020 into structured quantifiable variables using Amazon MTurk while minimizing loss and errors induced from conversion.
  • Coded interactive website to visualize data with dynamic line graphs and dot plots using Shiny R library
  • Analyzed occupational data under guidance of Penn Professor Xi Song and visualized result with 10+ graphs using ggplot2 in R to answer questions such as top 10 occupations with most contraction in the past 20 years; graphs were presented at annual American Sociological Association convention as part of research finding
PRESENTED BY
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
College of Arts & Sciences 2025
Advised By
Xi Song
Associate Professor of Sociology
PRESENTED BY
PURM - Penn Undergraduate Research Mentoring Program
College of Arts & Sciences 2025
Advised By
Xi Song
Associate Professor of Sociology

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