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Alabama Tornado Dataset

Author: Jesús Ros Solé

Objective

The objective of this project is to obtain a dataset using web scraping techniques on the Alabama Tornado Dataset webpage.

The project is developed in Python3 and uses the following external libraries:

  • BeautifulSoup, from bs4
  • requests
  • SequenceMatcher, from difflib

Content

  • data
    • dataset.csv: output dataset.
  • doc
    • img: folder containing images used in documentation.
    • doc.Rmd: R script to generate documentation.
    • doc.pdf: pdf output of the documentation.
  • src
    • main.py: Python script that executes the web scraping pipeline.
    • scraper.py: Python script with the definition of the Scraper class, containing the structures to store the scraped data and methods to manipulate it.
    • utils.py: Python script with functions used by the Scraper class that perform some stand-alone tasks.
  • LICENCE: license file under which this work is released.
  • README.md: this file.