BBC Champions League Graph

This project takes us from BBC live text commentary for Champions League 2014/2015 matches to a Neo4j graph containing the events of each match.

Quick start

• Install the latest version of Neo4j from http://neo4j.com/download/

• Windows users: Install desktop application & then click the 'start' button

• Mac/Linux: Unpack the tarball & then ./bin/neo4j start

• Download import.cql to your machine

Import the data into Neo4j:

cd neo4j-community-2.2.2
./bin/neo4j-shell --file import.cql

Open http://localhost:7474 and you’re good to go

Working with the data

If you want to play with the raw data you’ll first need to setup a Python environment.

Install virtualenv and create a sandbox for this project:

virtualenv bbc
source bbc/bin/activate

Install the appropriate libraries:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Download all the matches:

python find_all_matches.py | xargs wget -P data/raw

Generate the CSV files that we import into Neo4j:

python extract_players.py
# players will be written to data/players.csv

python extract_events.py
# the other CSV files in data/ will be written