jsvine / nicar-2019-schedule

The NICAR 2019 conference schedule as JSON and CSV files, plus the underlying Python scraper.

NICAR 2019 Schedule as Structured Data

This repository contains the NICAR 2019 conference schedule as JSON and CSV files, plus the underlying Python scraper.

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Get the data

Last updated March 9, 2019 @ 3:00pm Pacific

• 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-2019-schedule # Optional, recommended
git clone https://github.com/jsvine/nicar-2019-schedule.git
cd nicar-2019-schedule
pip install -r requirements.txt

To run the scraper, execute this command:

make schedule

Look beneath the hood

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

Fix/improve things

Pull requests are welcome.