paulbradshaw/aistudio-uk-school-predictions

Predicting school closures in the UK

aistudio-uk-school-predictions

Ofsted publishes reports on school performances across the UK. This scraper pulls these reports from their site to build a corpus intended to predict school closures in the UK.

Prequisites

Tika, the dependency that converts PDF files into text, requires Java to run. You can download the latest version of Java through Oracle. Alternatively, if you have a Mac, you can simply run brew cask install java.

To install all Python related dependencies, run pip install -r requirements.txt.

Download the school report data by running:

mkdir schools
aws s3 sync s3://qz-aistudio-jbfm-scratch/schools schools

Running the Code

Run python scraper.py to get started.