HackRPI2015

HackRPI 2015 Project - Binghamton Meal Plan Data Retriever

Big data has always been interesting, but we had never used it before this weekend. The goal of the project was to calculate how much money each of us spends per day on food at Binghamton. This would also allow us to estimate how much money we would need per semester.

Therefore, we wanted to pull data from the Binghamton Sodexo Dining Services website to count the total amount we spent per day and then put it into a graphical format. We learned how to use headless browsers with the PhantomJS library, used the Selenium library to automate web browsing to scrape data from websites using CSS selectors, use programming language R to generate graphics, and got practice merging branches in GitHub.

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Josiah and I worked very closely together on finding the appropriate libraries and using CSS selectors to navigate webpages. In addition, I parsed the text file containing the raw meal plan data and formatted the data into a line graph using R.

Jeffrey Chan
I worked on the css selector elements, and the java coding. Although, we both worked on everything at the same time. The only part of the project I didn't touch at all, was the parsing of the data and the R-code.

Josiah Bailey

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Jeffrey Chan started this project — Nov 15, 2015 11:36 AM EST

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