arttactic

A Python library for extracting and processing data from scraped art auction results. Currently designed to run on Linux or macOS, not yet tested on Windows.

Description

arttactic provides tools for working with art auction datasets, including:

• Cleaning and transforming auction data
• Applying buyer’s premium calculations
• Extracting mediums from lot information

Installation

(Recommended) In the terminal, create a virtual environment and activate it.

For example:

python3 -m venv arttactic-venv
source arttactic-venv/bin/activate

Then install the arttactic library:

pip install arttactic

Usage

From the terminal, run the following CLI command:

run-arttactic

This will launch a GUI that allows you to:

• Select a directory containing .csv files with scraped auction data,
• Select a single file you wish to add buyer's premiums to,
• Generate processed spreadsheets after selecting a directory,
• Generate processed spreadsheets after selecting a directory, and also find and save new mediums,
• Add buyer's premiums to a selected file.

Development

(Only relevant if you wish to edit the source code.) To install locally in editable mode:

pip install -e .