Analysis for the ARRA Instagram Project

This project is designed to get our researchers going with analysis of the ARRA data. It is a python package which will contain core functions for accessing the data.

create a file in the top-level directory called .db and fill it with a 1-line DB connection string, ie:

postgres://username:password@db_url:5432/db_name

then you can access this module from your python script just like usual with import protocol:

import arradata

get the dataset like this:

dataset = arradata.data(refresh = True)

leave out the refresh kwarg after the first time to save time and access the saved local copy.

dataset = arradata.data()

Get raw connection to DB:

conn = arradata.get_connection()

The data will be delivered as a pandas dataframe. All columns that come from the survey data will be prefixed with the the word survey_. All other columns are data derived from the Instagram data.

Discover connections (correlations) between the survey_ data and the Instagram data.