Japan Visa Analysis: Azure End to End Data Engineering 🌐

This project provides an end-to-end data processing and visualization of visa numbers in Japan using PySpark and Plotly. The spark clusters are set up within a Docker container on Azure.

📝 Table of Contents

• System Architecture
• Setup & Requirements
• Usage
• Features
• Notes
• Video

System Architecture

🛠 Setup & Requirements

1. Azure Account: Ensure you have an active Azure account.
2. Docker: The Spark master-worker architecture is set up in a Docker container on Azure.
3. Python Libraries: Install the required Python libraries:
   • PySpark
   • Plotly Express
   • pycountry
   • pycountry_convert
   • fuzzywuzzy

🚀 Usage

1. Data Input: Place your CSV file named visa_number_in_japan.csv in the input directory.
2. Run the Script: Execute the provided Python script.
3. Visualizations: After execution, you'll find the visualizations saved as HTML files in the output directory.
4. Cleaned Data: The cleaned data will also be saved as a CSV file in the output directory.

📈 Features

• System Architecture: The Spark master-worker architecture is set up in a Docker container on Azure.
• Data Ingestion: The script ingests the CSV file containing the visa numbers in Japan.
• Data Cleaning: The script standardizes column names, drops null columns, and corrects country names using fuzzy matching.
• Data Transformation: The data is further enriched by adding continent information for each country.
• Data Visualization: The cleaned and transformed data is visualized using Plotly Express to provide insights into visa trends in Japan.

📝 Notes

• Ensure that your Azure and Docker setups are correctly configured to allow the Spark master-worker architecture to function seamlessly.
• The country name corrections and continent mapping are based on the pycountry and pycountry_convert libraries. Ensure that these libraries are up-to-date to get accurate results.
• You can adjust the manual mappings in the country_mapping dictionary in the main.py file to correct any country names that are not correctly matched.

🎥 Video