This Exercise is a data wrangling challenge organised by @Datopian. It is the normalised version of the European union Road Safety Facts and Figures, year is assumed to be 2018. The Exercise entails a number of data manupulations. Some columns of the frame were exempted. A few illustrative charts are included. Data used for the project was sourced from the European union Road Safety Facts and Figures. link to data source [Wikipedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_safety_in_Europe)
Although, Scripts in this exercise are used to normalize data and return a CSV. Please Note that all CSVs here uses a comma , as the delimiter.
The Exercise was done using JavaScript/nodejs.
The Exercise requires the folowing libraries:
axios
cheerio
objects-to-csv
kiwis
To use this project locally you must have nodejs installed.
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Clone the repository:
git clone -b main https://github.com/njokdan/datatopian_data_wrangling_excercise.git
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Open the downloaded Folder:
cd datatopian_data_wrangling_excercisein the project root folder.
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Install External Dependencies:
npm install
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Running the script In the project root directory, run:
node app.js
Located at [datatopian_data_wrangling_excercise/index.js], this scripts scraps data from the European Union Road Safety Facts and Figures table from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_safety_in_Europe.
The script result and required result is saved and located in this sub-folder named data with the name "data.csv". The wikipedia data is saved and located in the sub-folder named data. The data is named "raw_data.csv".
My Tabular Data Package is located at https://github.com/njokdan/datatopian_data_wrangling_excercise/blob/main/data/datapackage.json.