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nickjevershed / Detention-population-stats

Web scraper for immigration detention population statistics
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Get historical data #1

Open equivalentideas opened 9 years ago

equivalentideas commented 9 years ago

Hey @nickjevershed , nice work with this scraper. Don't know if you've got this older stuff, but ages ago I captured a bunch here:

https://archive.org/details/20140102AustralianImmigrationDetentionPopulation

and with the help of a few volunteers, extracted a lot of the data to here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cjY73u35ZPEBr0qzgfIKBAkTUJct14EpLhHi0dFUixI/edit?usp=sharing

nickjevershed commented 9 years ago

That's great! Was going to ping you actually and let you know about it in case you wanted to add to detn logs or something. I still need to add a few more facilities in mine, would be good to get all the stats together in one place also.

equivalentideas commented 9 years ago

would be good to get all the stats together in one place also.

Definitely, it's all really useful.

http://detentionlogs.com.au/ could definitely be a good place to store this at some point this stuff at some point. Or maybe just a really simple site that just does this one thing well would be better.

nickjevershed commented 9 years ago

Maybe a meta-scraper on Morph, ie. one that pulls in the historic data then checks for the new figures? I like having things on morph as they'll always be updated.

equivalentideas commented 9 years ago

Nice :+1: