Alabama Tornado Dataset

Author: Jesús Ros Solé

Objective

The objective of this project is to obtain a dataset using web scraping techniques on the Alabama Tornado Dataset webpage.

The project is developed in Python3 and uses the following external libraries:

• BeautifulSoup, from bs4
• requests
• SequenceMatcher, from difflib

Content

• data
  • dataset.csv: output dataset.
• doc
  • img: folder containing images used in documentation.
  • doc.Rmd: R script to generate documentation.
  • doc.pdf: pdf output of the documentation.
• src
  • main.py: Python script that executes the web scraping pipeline.
  • scraper.py: Python script with the definition of the Scraper class, containing the structures to store the scraped data and methods to manipulate it.
  • utils.py: Python script with functions used by the Scraper class that perform some stand-alone tasks.
• LICENCE: license file under which this work is released.
• README.md: this file.