Party Switchers in Peru.

Project for UChicago CAPP122, Computer Science with Applications (March 2020) with A.Bartra, R.Eid, M.Richardson

Keywords: WebScraping, SQL, Network Analysis, Python.

0. Presentation

Slides can be found here

1. Installation

To run the party switching application, please follow the steps below:

a. Install Google Chrome, if you have not already.

b. In the "/project" directory, run the install shell script with the command $ sh install.sh.

c. Activate the virtual environment with the command $ source env/bin/activate

d. Start up the application's interface by running the command $ ipython party_switching.py or $ python3 party_switching.py

2. Code

The folder includes all the code used for the application by different stages: web scraping, SQL, analysis, graphs, and visualizations.

3. Data

The folder stores all data files that are used in the application

4. Other files

output (directory): Empty folder where web-scraped data and generated and visualizations are stored

install.sh: Shell script for installation

party_switching.py: Main file for running application

Required libraries can be installed from the requirements file