To collect the data for courseoff.com I scrape university websites on demand. This means that I have to perform http queries to the sites and then parse the resulting pages. Usually, this is not a problem as node.js has very simple APIs for performing both http and https requests. However, some schools have old webservers [...]
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course/off visualization – gatech Spring 2012
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Since I have all this data from course/off, I figured I would make some interesting visualizations with some of it. One of the first things that comes to mind is: how popular is a given course? Without further delay, I present the glorious bubble diagram of course popularity at Georgia Tech for Spring 2012.