James Beard Awards data

A CSV file with data on James Beard Awards winners, nominees and finalists from 1991 to present -- everything from the search page, minus a few duplicates, plus some missing data -- and the Python scraper that builds it.

Field layouts

Each awards category involves slightly different data values, so each type of record populates a slightly different subset of the fields in the CSV:

• year
• recipient_id
• recipient_name
• category
• subcategory
• award_status
• location
• restaurant_name
• company
• project
• publisher
• book_title
• publication
• show

Data fixes

The scraped data includes some incomplete and duplicate records. Most frequently, the recipient_name was missing from the HTML, though as it turns out, if you do a little research to figure out the awardee's name, searching that name on the James Beard website returns the (incomplete) record, which then allows you to match it up to its unique recipient_id.

At any rate, see fixes.json for:

• .fixes: An object with data updates (and sources) keyed to recipient_id
• .duplicates: An object that keys the recipient_id of a duplicate record to discard (typically missing the recipient_name) to the recipient_id of the original record

Records are also deduplicated on the basis of all fields except recipient_id.