Getting Started

Overview

Welcome to PeopleMap! To begin using PeopleMap, you must first navigate to the terminal on your computer and clone the repository using the command:

git clone https://github.com/poloclub/people-map.git

Quick Note: Make sure you are using Python 3 before installing the following dependencies

Dependencies Installation

1. Now that you have successfully cloned the repository, it is time to begin the process of installing the dependencies necessary for PeopleMap before moving on to the next steps:

   • To install the dependencies, navigate to the root of the project in terminal

   • Run the following command which will install all the required packages from requirements.txt file in the main directory of the PeopleMap repository:

     pip install -r requirements.txt

2. After successfully cloning the repository and installing the necessary dependencies, please go to the page below to begin scraping researcher data: