README.md

NICAR 2017 Schedule as Structured Data

This repository contains the NICAR 2017 conference schedule as JSON and CSV files, plus the underlying Python scraper.

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Get the data

Last updated March 4, 2017 @ 6:45pm Eastern

• JSON schedule
• CSV schedule

Run the scraper yourself

To run the scraper, you'll need Python 3. To get started, execute the following commands in your terminal:

mkvirtualenv nicar-2017-schedule # Optional, recommended
git clone https://github.com/jsvine/nicar-2017-schedule.git
cd nicar-2017-schedule
pip install -r requirements.txt

To run the scraper, execute this command:

make schedule

Or, more verbosely:

python ./scripts/scrape.py > schedule/nicar-2017-schedule.json
in2csv schedule/nicar-2017-schedule.json > schedule/nicar-2017-schedule.csv

Look beneath the hood

You can find the Python script that extracts and formats the schedule here.

Fix/improve things

Pull requests are welcome.