gianordoli / bootcamp_2013_visualization

Visualization of all posts from the MFADT Bootcamp 2013 blog

MFADT Bootcamp 2013 Visualization

MFADT, Parsons The New School for Design

Visualizing all posts from the MFADT Bootcamp 2013 blog

Data Scraped with Kimono

August, 2014

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Data

1. Acquire

• Scraped data from the Bootcamp 2013 website using Kimono:

  • post + href
  • student
  • tags
  • date

• Scraped data from the people page, to get a list of students and teams

2. Parse

• Converted from csv to tsv using Google Spreadsheets
  • File > Import > Upload
  • File > Download as > Tab-separated values

3. Filter

• Using step_01_dataToObjects:
  • Filtered out tags and left only classes (Code, Design, Web, and Uncategorized)
  • Crossing data with the students list, assigned teams to each student
  • Assigned "faculty" to teachers
  • Stored post data into objects