README.md

YDN Data Analytics Desk

This is the internal repository for resources used by the Yale Daily News' Data Analytics Desk. Contact Leon Lufkin or Amy Zhao with any questions.

We'll list shortcuts to important documents below.

• Technical Setup Guide
• Code Style Guide
• Helpful Resources

Below are some links to resources/info on some of our projects from last year. This readme will probably be overwritten with more current info as time progresses.

Projects from Last Year

Course Demand & CourseTable

Resources

• Data Usage Guide for CourseTable and Course Demand
• Yale Course Demand Statistics scraper
• Processing the CourseTable JSON in R

Subprojects

• Michael Chau: report on course locations and times
• Darwin Do: report on course ratings
• Nathan Kim: YDN ggplot theme

Demographic Data

Resources

• Yale Facebook scraped .csv (anonymized, updated 25 Feb)
• Using Google Maps Geocoding API to lookup lat/long

Subprojects

• Ashley Qin: report on athletics and internationals, draft of story, published story
• Daniel Kim: majors by state and residential college

Professor Political Leanings

• Link to report: GitHub
• Link to story: Google Docs