Use this Makefile to generate a clean, decoded, sparkling CSV, which can be imported into the College Matching site.

• posix operating system (linux or mac os, that sort of thing)
• python
• postgres
• make

sudo apt-get install postgres

brew install postgres python

Before running this Makefile, you need a PostGres database with tables built from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). Use the Makefile in ipeds-db to create your DB.

Run the Makefile! It queries the IPEDS database, generates a CSV, and finally decodes that CSV into a human-readable format. You can find the results in the build directory.

make all

Want something different? Clean out the build directory, and start over.

make clean

Find a usable, human-readable CSV document in /build/schools_processed.csv. This document provides the data for the College Matching site: move it into the /data/ directory of that repo.

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