UCSD offers a tool called CAPE, which allows students to report feedback on their course at the end of each term. However, the site has some issues which make the data harder to understand. Most notably, there's no context for any of the numbers, so it's pretty hard to compare classes and professors.
Seascape (Super Extra Awesome Spicier CAPE) is a solution to this, providing visualizations and extra statistics to make CAPE data easier to understand and compare.
For more info, see the blogpost.
Seascape relies on scraping data from the CAPE website for its function; this
can be accomplished with the scrape-sparse executable. There are two ways of
running it:
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Without an argument, during which it will use Selenium to navigate to the correct page and scrape the data (you will need to log into your UCSD account during the process).
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With a file argument pointing to the downloaded CAPE Results page, where the data can be scraped without Selenium.
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CAPE for the original data
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Smarter CAPEs for the concept & original scraping code
This project was originally created for SPIS 2019.
MIT.