We rank coding bootcamps. 📊
Overview
I developed a web app (still in BETA) that ranks coding bootcamps based on social and rating score based on data crawled from various sites (LinkedIn, Twitter, Yelp, Course Report, Facebook, AngelList, Google+, etc.) using Cheerio and the MEAN stack.This project was completed on August 11th, 2015 for the Stackathon phase of Fullstack Academy.
Features
- Logo, description, and home page link are grabbed from Twitter profile.
Review and rating scores are calculated from
- Course Report number of reviews
- Facebook
- number of reviews
- average rating
- Google+
- number of reviews
- average rating
- Switchup
- number of reviews
- average rating
- Techendo
- number of reviews
- positive ratings
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- negative ratings
- Quora
- number of reviews
- average rating
- Yelp
- number of reviews
- average rating
Social score is calculated from
- AngelList followers
- Facebook likes
- Google+ followers
- LinkedIn followers
- Quora followers
- Twitter followers
Future Features
- Users can add bootcamps.
- Admins can add/update bootcamps.
- Sort by specific provider.
- Resource page.
- Sockets for real time adding and updating of bootcamps.
- Calculating Techendo average rating fairly.
- Calculate number of unique reviews from each provider, but don’t actually copy the reviews over.
- Better comments so others can easily contribute.
- Get links to other links from Course Report so less links are needed and scraping is faster.
- Refactoring of code in general.
Tools
Stats
GitHub Repo
https://github.com/fvcproductions/RankMe