CPSC PhD Categories
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Alexa Schor
As far as I'm aware, these are only published in the PDF, unfortunately.
Joshua Chen
Alexa Schor: That's unfortunate, as we'll unlikely to be able to provide up-to-date information. One thing that had been on my mind which I haven't discussed or proposed yet is a "CourseTable wiki" that allows anyone to add these sorts of attributes to classes.
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Alexa Schor
Joshua Chen Oh interesting! I think one positive is that I believe these categories are only updated once per semester, and usually just once per academic year.
I'd have to familiarize myself with your guys's codebase/rules/conventions but I'd be happy to contribute a PDF scraper to ferry if that's desired - of course there's no guarantee that the location and formatting will stay the same every year, but it seems to have been linked to from the same page since 2013, and the formatting only slightly changed once in the last ten years: 2013-2019 followed a constant formatting, and 2020-2024 followed a slightly different but also constant formatting.
Joshua Chen
under review
Joshua Chen
Hi! That's an interesting idea. Is the PDF the only source of information? Is there a scrapable and updated website so we don't have to adjust our code and/or manually input data every year?
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Alexa Schor
This year's handbook: https://cpsc.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/CS_Graduate_Handbook__24_25.pdf