https://github.com/saulshanabrook/college-data
A little bit of massaged IPEDS data.
https://github.com/saulshanabrook/college-data
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A little bit of massaged IPEDS data.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/saulshanabrook/college-data
- Owner: saulshanabrook
- Created: 2013-04-06T15:14:15.000Z (over 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2013-10-23T22:52:32.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-15T08:17:00.897Z (8 months ago)
- Language: Python
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- Size: 16 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: readme.md
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# What is this?
I am fed up with crappy "Find a College that works for you!" sites. They often take a lot of college data and simplify it down to a few toggles where you can
select how big you want the school to be and so on. I cut out the middleman and went straight to the sources [IPEDS](http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/). The U.S.
Federal government requires that all U.S. colleges provide a ton of data every year. They release this data in nice little csv files. Well maybe not so nice.
Thats why I need this projet, to take CSV files exported by their ["Download Custom Data Files"](http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/InstitutionByName.aspx)
and merge the files it exports and to clean up the header rows to be more readable.
The exported files are in `Raw Data/`, I choose many variables to export, that would be applicable to me. All IPEDS schools are included in this data set.
# How do I make it wokr?
`make clean`
Takes `Raw Data/large.csv` and `Raw Data/small.csv` and merges them and fixes their column names. Exports it to `Cleaned/final.csv`
# But then what do I do?
I use [OpenRefine](http://openrefine.org/) to filter this data. [Google Fusion Tables](http://www.google.com/drive/start/apps.html#fusiontables)
is also nice for mapping the data and it works with Google Drive.