Computational Stratification: Data-Intensive Social Science for Inequality & Policy
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Code and data for the research team scraping charter websites using scrapy, requests, Selenium, and wget with Python, shell, and Docker. This is the foundation of analyses into charter schools' linguistic strategies and social implications.
comp-strat/web_scraping’s past year of commit activity - scrape_obituaries Public
Code for scraping obituaries from Legacy.com. 3 steps: scrape URLs & paragraphs then extract age, sex, & race
comp-strat/scrape_obituaries’s past year of commit activity - web-crawling-ic2s2-2022 Public Forked from jhaber-zz/web-crawling-intro-2021
An introduction to web-crawling/scraping for beginners with some Python know-how. Created for IC2S2 Summer 2022 by Jaren Haber, PhD
comp-strat/web-crawling-ic2s2-2022’s past year of commit activity - edunomics_arrays Public
Arrays of school level spending across student poverty/disadvantage for Edunomics Lab. DC and maybe other states/districts.
comp-strat/edunomics_arrays’s past year of commit activity - text_analysis Public
Code and data for research team that does text analysis: word counts, word embeddings, topic models, parsing HTML, unsupervised clustering, etc.
comp-strat/text_analysis’s past year of commit activity - data_management Public
Code for managing large data sets in Python, usually with Pandas. These scripts mostly merge, filter, inspect, and count things. Developed for a charter school database of 10K+ units based on web-crawling and federal data sources (CCD, ACS, etc).
comp-strat/data_management’s past year of commit activity - sorting-schools-2020 Public
Replication code for "Sorting Schools: A Computational Analysis of Charter School Identities and Stratification" research article by Jaren Haber, UC Berkeley. Paper investigates the relationships between charter school and school district poverty & race, on one hand, and school ideology and academic performance, on the other.
comp-strat/sorting-schools-2020’s past year of commit activity - geospatial Public
Code that examines geographic patterns in charter school proliferation, size, performance, and especially ideology within race- and class-structured school districts and Census tracts. Key packages include matplotlib, folium, and geoplotlib.
comp-strat/geospatial’s past year of commit activity - scrapy-cluster Public Forked from istresearch/scrapy-cluster
This Scrapy project uses Redis and Kafka to create a distributed on demand scraping cluster.
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