The application is currently hosted live at https://cmu-faculty-student-net.herokuapp.com/

This code base contains both a webscraping pipeline and a Plotly Dash application used in creation of the above application.

This application is powered with data scraped from the people pages of the department's website as well as the published PhD dissertations and technical reports of the programs alumni -- both in pdf format.

All code relevant to this pipeline is in cmu_faculty_student_net/web_scraper and cmu_faculty_student_net/scripts. Output is written to cmu_faculty_student_net/data

The scripts which generate the underlying data powering the application are ran in the following order:

1. scrape_cmu.py
2. transform_faculty_current_students.py
3. transform_alumni.py
4. create_match_review_frame.py (this script produces an output which is then manually QA'd)
5. create_node_edge_files.py

For explanatory purposes, this repo included the final data used to power the final application in data/app/

Most of the code relevant to the front-end portion of this project is in cmu_faculty_student_net/utils, cmu_faculty_student_net/callbacks, and cmu_faculty_student_net/layout.

To run the application execute python app.py from the command line. The application is currently hosted at https://cmu-faculty-student-net.herokuapp.com/.