This project started because I was curious about how my performance at ballroom dance competitions changed over time. I wrote a python script to crawl my individual result page on O2CM, the primary scrutineering and result storing system for collegiate dance competitions that I attended. After cleaning the results using BeautifulSoup and importing the final data into SQL, here’s what I found:

[IN PROGRESS]

As an exercise in database design, I decided to mock up how I thought ballroom competition data should be formatted. (I have no actual insight into how O2CM stores its data–this was just me attempting to translate my data wishes as an analyst and my knowledge of relational databases into a database diagram.)

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