stay-puft

HackTech 2017

Project Layout

1. Gather Data
2. Populate Database
3. Visualize Data

Getting Started

1. (optional, recommended) Make a Python (3.6) virtual environment
2. pip install -r requirements.txt
3. Create/start a MySQL database and set up the database configuration (cp config.json.example config.json and edit)
4. Initialize the database mysql -u $MYSQL_USERNAME -p $MYSQL_SCHEMA < data/schema/XX-SQL_SCRIPT.sql
5. cd data/collect
6. Load hackathons from hackalist.org python hackalist.py YEAR MONTH
7. Scrape projects from devpost python devpost.py

See Kenneth Reitz's description for this workflow utilizing requirements.txt and requirements-to-freeze.txt