7/24/17
On 7/21/17 I spent a lot of time trying to fix my macbook so that I could more easily work on this project at home. I was also able to export my database as a .csv file. I used the COPY command. COPY precincts TO '/home/dsmall/VA_votes/CSV_converter/Untitled Folder' DELIMITER ',' CSV HEADER ; This just copies the table into a .txt file or a .csv file. It can then be easily put into an excel spreadsheet. The last thing I did was make a different spreadsheet with all of Elizabeth Guzman's donors with the value of their donations. I also sent these files to Louis who is working on her campaign. The next thing that he wanted me to do was to make a scraper that gets the phone number or home address of her donors. While looking into this I found that the White pages and the Yellow pages aren't just databases with everyone's phone number and address. http://www.whitepages.com/ https://www.yellowpages.com/ To actually get the information you have to pa