Data + Narrative 2019 Advanced Liberating Data from Documents: Free and Reliable Methods

This repo contains information used in an advanced class on extracting data from PDFs taught at the Boston University Data + Narrative workshop on 6/4/19.

Our objective was to convert three files from PDFs into machine-readable data using two Python packages, and clean and analyze that data in pandas.

The introductory level of this class can be found here.

Required Software

Python

pandas

Jupyter Lab

Camelot

pdfplumber

Ghostscript