Extracting the "dot plot" economic projections posted online by the Federal Open Market Committee

Forked from here. Separating this out so that we can write some new methods to format things how we'll need for our charts.

• Source
• Latest scraped data

Usage

Clone the repository.

gh repo clone ft-interactive/fed-dot-plot-scraper

Move into the directory.

cd fed-dot-plot-scraper

Install the dependencies.

pipenv install --dev

Run the scraper (and output the original wide format)

pipenv run python -m src.scrape

You can write it the long-formatted/expanded beeswarm format like this

pipenv run python -m src.scrape --expand