Okay, so I got this thing I wanted to do – keep track of football scores using this Minerva thing. Sounds fancy, right? Well, it wasn’t as smooth as I thought it would be, but I got it working in the end. Let me tell you how it all went down.
First off, I had to get my hands on this Minerva thing. It’s like a data platform, you know, for storing and looking at information. I figured it would be cool to use it for football scores since I’m a big fan and always checking scores online. Anyway, I got it set up on my computer – took a bit of time figuring out the installation, but nothing too crazy.
Getting Started
Once I had Minerva up and running, I needed to figure out how to actually get the football scores into it. I thought, “Maybe there’s a way to automatically grab the scores from somewhere?” I did some digging, but it wasn’t as straightforward as I hoped.
The Manual Labor
So, plan B: manual entry. Yeah, not the most exciting, but hey, it works. I started by creating a table in Minerva to store the scores. I made columns for things like “home team,” “away team,” “home score,” “away score,” and the “date.” Just the basics, you know?
Then came the real work – watching the games and typing in the scores myself. Every weekend, I’d have the games on, notebook in hand, jotting down the scores as they happened. After each game, I’d jump onto my computer and punch those numbers into my Minerva table. It was a bit tedious, I won’t lie, but I was determined.
Making it Useful
After a few weeks, I had a decent amount of data in there. But just having a table of scores wasn’t that exciting. I wanted to be able to, like, see trends and stuff. So I started playing around with Minerva’s query features. You can ask it questions like, “Which team has the most wins?” or “What’s the average score for games played in December?”
I wrote down some basic queries:
- Get all scores: This was simple, just pulling all the data from my table.
- Get scores for a specific team: I could filter the results to show only games for, say, my favorite team.
- Get scores within a date range: This let me see scores for a specific month or week.
It was pretty cool seeing the answers pop up. It felt like I had my own little sports database going.
Still a Work in Progress
It’s not perfect, of course. I still have to enter the scores manually, which is a pain. And I’m sure there are fancier things I could be doing with Minerva, but I’m still learning. Maybe someday I’ll figure out a way to automate the whole score-grabbing process. But for now, it’s my little football score project, and I’m kind of proud of it.
I hope you guys got something useful from this and maybe get inspired to create your own little projects like this one.
