elainechan / supgov

Explore open government data.

What's Up, Gov?

What's up with the government? And literally everyone the government knows about? Find it in open data.

• CrossCompute Tool

ACRIS Document Search Image Retrieval

• Landing page
• Scraping with BeautifulSoup
  • Do something with Form action property
  • Tutorials
    • BeautifulSoup Documentation
    • Tracking international arms dealers with strings
    • Python Web Scraping Tutorial using BeautifulSoup
    • [How to scrape websites with Python and BeautifulSoup](https://medium.freecodecamp. org/how-to-scrape-websites-with-python-and-beautifulsoup-5946935d93fe)
    • [Web Scraping Tutorial with Python: Tips and Tricks](https://hackernoon.com/web-scraping-tutorial-with-python-tips-and-trick s-db070e70e071)

311 Service Requests From 2010 to Present

Processes

• Use requests to get data or download manually from source.

Exploratory Analysis

Request Close Time

• "How long does it take to close requsts?"
• Use datetime to parse dates

Data

• Data source page
• API documentation
• Data view UI