abdullahkhilji / nirf

NIRF ranking analysis

NIRF

For mining and analyzing information uploaded on Nation Institute Ranking Framework.

Downloading PDFs

PDFs for all the institutes of all categories are download and converted into text files by the following command.

> pushd src
> ./download.sh
> popd

Parse the text files to create JSONs

The process.py file creates JSONs from the output of pdftotext using TextFSM.

> pushd src
> python3 process.py
# Convert strings to int
> find rankings -name "*.json" -exec perl -i -p -e 's/"(\d+)"/$1/g' {} \;
> popd 

Disclaimer: Some of the files might not get correctly parsed and might need some manual effort.

Analyzing the data

The notebook NIRF Analysis.ipynb contains the source for all the analysis and plots.