Name: Aleksei Gridnev
Type: User
Company: Rystad Energy, AS
Bio: Senior Data Analyst at Rystad Energy (Oslo). Ph. D. in Political Science and Sociology from Scoula Normale Superiore (Italy). MA: UPF (Barcelona, Spain)
Location: Oslo, Norway
Aleksei Gridnev's Projects
Hetzner Online Community Project
A Python 3.5 app with GUI for downloading electoral data on parliamentary elections in Russia of 18.09.2016. You can choose the region and electoral system (FPTP or PR). Requires packages "bs4" and "requests". The file to run is gui.py , others are imported from gui.py.
Scripts for scraping and primary text analysis of ECB Monthly Bulletins, the analytical journal of ECB published since 1999 up to 2014; currently, it allows to identify the most frequent collocations in each volume per 1000 words
Script to download the headlines of the news from the website of "Echo Moskvy", one of the few independent Russian media.
Script for counting the number of news in each region in the old website of Russian NGO "Golos"
Hackeriet Website
The results of Hungarian parliamentary elections of 2018 and 2010. So far, only results for proportional representation and without foreign and postal votes. The scripts for scraping are attached. To be updated.
A small IRC client with an HTTP API
MegaGlest real-time strategy game engine (cross-platform, 3-d)
A Python script for downloadind the MEPs speeches. In the current version, the program downloads the first 100 speeches per person, and if the number of speeches is higher, it writes the names and the links of these MEPs in a file "Missing data" (it's related to difficulties with dealing with a Java-script in the website of the EU Parliament.)
Collection of loosely connected Python utilities for running a hackerspace
A Python 3 script for getting the electoral data from regional elections in Saint Petersburg in 2016 on each of the single-mandate districts. Might be used for getting the data for other years as well after slight changes.
Desktop search engine for Linux systems
Conversion of R Regression Output to LaTeX or HTML Tables
An implementation of two-staged Heckman model needed to correct self-selection bias of of authoritarian institutions.
Script to download electoral data on Ukrainian presidential elections of 2014 and writing the data for each electoral district in a separate csv-file. Required packages: bs4, requests
Script for using the World Bank API for getting panel data on indicators chosen for all countries in csv format. Required packages: requests, json