README.md

wiki-death

clone of The Pudding repo + video tutorial, Wiki-Death

Setup

Dependencies

• node

Install

Clone the repo and run npm i

Generate Output

1) npm run download-year-pages

Download HTMl for the year event pages from wiki that contain a list of all notable deaths (2015-2018)

2) npm run parse-year-pages

Extract every person and their meta data from the event pages to create a csv of all notable deaths

3) npm run get-wiki-pagesviews

Use wiki pageviews api to get the daily pageviews for en.wikipedia.org so that we can calculate percent of traffic for each person and look into seasonality in the data

4) npm run get-people-pageviews

Use the wiki pageviews api to get the daily pageviews for each person in our full list of notable deaths

5) npm run join-people

Join all three sources into a single csv for each person that contains the daily pageviews, percent traffic, and metadata

6) npm run explore

Calculates summary statistics for each person's pageviews

7) npm run filter-population

Reduces data to people who satisfy some quantitative criteria

8) npm run add-details

Gets more details info on each person

9) npm run prepare-web

Consolidates and optimizes data for web presentation