GDP Scraper

Inspiration

I had no clear idea of what to do coming into Bitcamp and I thought that the Bloomberg slack channel had a good idea that I wanted to try to learn how it's done.

What it does

My program I ended up completing scrapes up to date GDP per capita of all countries in the world and calculates stats from it.

How we built it

I built it using spaCY Named Entity Recognition to identify what was a date, country, and GDP. This and urlopen were the two cornerstones of the project.

Challenges we ran into

SpaCY is not the best at recognizing things, as it bases some opinions on capitalization.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I got a working program.

What we learned

How to scrape information from any webpage.

What's next for GDP Scraper

Fix the Bloomberg one to properly read defense contracts.

Built With

• ner
• python
• spacy