vlall / MiddleEast-ML

Machine Learning on violence and economic turmoil in Iraq, Syria, etc...

MiddleEast-ML

Using public datasets to find correlations between violence and economic turmoil in areas of interest in the Middle East using Spark-ML on Postgres

Instructions

• You need to connect to the Postgres database. Enter your credentials in config.yaml

   	psql:
   	    dbname: 'dbname'
   	    user: 'username'
   	    host: 'localhost'
   	    password: ''
   	    data: '/Users/Username/Downloads/iraq-stats/iraq-stats/ibc-incidents.csv'
   	    sparkHome: '/Users/Username/Downloads/spark-1.6.2-bin-hadoop2.6'
   	    sparkClass: '/Users/Username/Downloads/iraq-stats/iraq-stats/postgresql-9.4.1208.jre6.jar'
  

  Dependencies

  You can find the data here:

  https://www.iraqbodycount.org/

  Spark Driver for Postgres:

  https://jdbc.postgresql.org/download/postgresql-9.4.1208.jre6.jar