notebook-ebola-scrape

This repository contains several Jupyter notebooks which scrape text data from newspapers and government institutions about Ebola responses in Sierra Leone. It is a part of the dissertation of research of Oladoyin Okunoren, at Boston College.

All scraped data is saved to the output/ directory.

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Scripts written by David J. Thomas Senior Digital Scholarship Specialist O'Neill Library Boston College

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List of Notebooks

sierra_leon_telegraphy.ipynb # scrapes the Sierra Leon Telegraph (saves to output/siera_leon_telegraph.csv)
awoko.ipynb # scrapes the Awoko Newspaper (saves to output/awoko_newspaper.csv)

merge_data.ipynb # merges all of the .csv files from the notebooks above into a single spreadsheet

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Installation

pip install -r requirements.txt
jupyter lab