comp-strat/scrape_obituaries
Code for scraping obituaries from Legacy.com. 3 steps: scrape URLs & paragraphs then extract age, sex, & race
This tool helps public health researchers gather death demographic data by automatically extracting information from online obituaries. It takes URLs from Legacy.com and the obituary text found there, then processes this text to identify the age, sex, and race of the deceased. Public health researchers or epidemiologists can use this to quickly estimate mortality trends and demographic-specific death distributions.
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Use this if you need to rapidly collect demographic data from online obituaries for public health surveillance or to assess mortality patterns.
Not ideal if you require real-time official death record data or if your analysis focuses on causes of death beyond basic demographics.
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GPL-3.0
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Dec 09, 2022
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