Use the Makefile to build a Postgres DB from IPEDS Access files.
Currently, it uses the 2014-15 Provisional data from https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/Section/accessdatabase/
- posix operating system (linux or mac os, that sort of thing)
- mdbtools
- python
- csvkit
- postgres
- wget
- make
sudo apt-get install mdbtools postgres
pip install csvkitbrew install mdbtools postgres wget python
pip install csvkitmake
make cleanRunning the MakeFile generates a PSQL database called ipeds. You can query this database however you like, or you can use the ipeds-csv repository to create a spreadsheet of college data, importable to the College Matching site.
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