How Web Scraping eases my job searching pain? - Part I : Scrape contents from one URL

Update : 2018-05-06 I have found that the website structure of Indeed, Monster, Dice, Careerbuilder have been changed since I wrote these posts. So, some of my code may not work now. But, I think the concept and the process is still the same. The Github repository for this project : choux130/webscraping_example. The process of finding jobs online can definitely be a torture. Every day is started by sitting in front of computer, browsing different kind of job searching websites and trying to track every job I have read and then categorizing them into interested or not interested.

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ioslides vs. Slidify in R Markdown Presentation

The Github repository for this website : choux130/slide_thesis_ioslides. The link to my slides : https://choux130.github.io/slide_thesis_ioslides/#1 Having an opportunity to give a presentation for my master thesis, I decided to give it a try on R Markdown Presentation with interactive graphs and planned to publish it online after the presentation. There are three main choices in R Studio for the R Markdown Presentation: ioslides, Slidy, and Beamer. Beamer is for .

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BATS and TBATS Model

BATS model is Exponential Smoothing Method + Box-Cox Transformation + ARMA model for residuals. The Box-Cox Transformation here is for dealing with non-linear data and ARMA model for residuals can de-correlated the time series data. Alysha M.(2010) has proved that BATS model can improve the prediction performance compared to the simple Sate Space Model. However, BATS model does not do well when the the seaonality is complex and high frequency.

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