Add doc on querying scraper output using DuckDB #76
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alexobaseki
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| SELECT classification, COUNT(*) | ||
| FROM bill_action_classifications |
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How do we access bill_action_classifications? The same question for bill_actions, bill_version_links.
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Those are all Views that can be created with the queries listed in the "Use views to drill down..." section of the document. I just added a commit that tries to emphasize the need to create those views before using various queries.
Do you think that helps enough to explain? or is there something else that should be added to make this more clear?
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I've found DuckDB very helpful in investigating data issues across a set of data flatfiles.
I wanted to include a portable DuckDB data file with this, but immediately found one case where scraped data output in one jurisdiction didn't have all the same properties (vote events in WY missing
dedupe_keywhereas DE hasdedupe_key). This causes the DuckDB view to fail with an error. So I added a note to the other ticket about improving scraper output, and instead this doc just includes the code to create the Views.