the goal:
I want to visualize every plane crash, ever
the data:
The best data I could find was at https://aviation-safety.net/
The data is not in a very consumable structure; it is posted as static html tables throughout the website. I will need to iterate through every unique aircraft accident on the website, extract all data, and put it into a structure that will help me visualize the data. This is a perfect job for Python!
the code:
an aside about the code
The function uses two parameters yearStart and yearEnd. It then iterates through the difference of the years and extracts the html from the webpage of the current iteration. It iterates again through the html and pulls out all links that have the word “/database”. and constructs a list called content of all webpages that have data. The code runs the main loop through…
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