Four of the 119 files in data/2016 publish one score column per subject instead of a DIEM_THI sentence, and none of them was being read correctly. The ĐH Công nghiệp Thực phẩm file puts a three-row ministry title block above its header, so no header was recognised and the positional fallback shifted every column by one: the serial number became so_bao_danh, the exam number became ho_ten, the name became ngay_sinh, and the national ID became the score cell. All 7,833 rows were unusable. The three ĐH Cần Thơ files name an SBD column but no DIEM_THI, so they fell to the same fallback: surname into ngay_sinh, given name into ten_cum_thi, birth date into the score cell, and 12,152 candidates with no scores at all. Both are now read by FormatSubjectColumns, which resolves identity and one column per subject from the header. The header is searched for in the first five rows, so a title block no longer hides it. The Cần Thơ score columns are numbered rather than named. They follow the order the exam was sat — each morning an essay paper, each afternoon a multiple-choice one — which is what identifies them: columns 1/3/5/7 quantise to 0.25 and 2/4/6/8 do not, and each column's mean lands within 0.5 of the same subject's mean across the rest of the dataset. The foreign language is filed under the subject its N1..N6 code names. Gender now accepts the 0/1 encoding those files use: of the rows marked 1, 53% carry "Thị" in the name against 1% of those marked 0. Birth dates in the compact ddmmyy form are expanded so the column holds one format. A score of 0 is stored rather than dropped, recovering 302 real scores that a JavaScript falsy check had been turning into NULL. Row count falls by one, to 877,460: the removed row is the title line "ĐƠN VỊ: / TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC CÔNG NGHIỆP THỰC PHẨM TP. HỒ CHÍ MINH", which had been stored as a student. The dataset has no duplicate exam numbers; the three rows previously described as collapsing were that same file's title and header lines being counted and then rejected. Also drops behaviour that existed only to match the parser this one replaced: the inert "SINH " header token, the untrimmed diem_thi cell, an unreachable blank-row branch, and a cross-check test against a database that can no longer exist. None of them changes output. Verified by rebuilding both datasets: 877,460 and 861,068 rows, both artifacts through the assembler's row and size guards, and the reader fidelity suite unchanged across all 182 files.
thptqg
Tra cứu điểm thi THPT Quốc gia — exam-score lookup for Vietnam's national high
school graduation exam. Client-side SQL (sql.js) over a SQLite database built
from the published .xls/.xlsx score files by the Go parser module. Where
those files come from: data pipeline.
Live at tiennm99.github.io/thptqg.
| Dataset | Exam | Candidates | Site |
|---|---|---|---|
2016 |
2016 | 877,460 | /2016/ |
2017 |
2017 | 861,068 | /2017/ |
Two earlier 2017 publications (2017-old, 2017-old2) were kept for a while
because they disagreed with the current one. They have been removed; they remain
in git history.
Layout
The repository is one directory per pipeline stage, plus the two stores they pass between them.
crawler/ Go — re-fetches the source spreadsheets → data/
parser/ Go — Excel to SQLite data/ → .db
assembler/ Go — verifies, compresses, builds, assembles .db + web/ → _site/
web/ npm — the frontend, one Vite app for every dataset
data/<id>/ raw Excel files, one directory per dataset
datasets.json the registry: which datasets exist, and their expected size
docs/ architecture, data pipeline, deployment
Each stage runs on its own and hands its output to the next through the stores.
web/ is the only npm project; the three stages are independent Go modules.
datasets.json is the contract between them. It is JSON because Go and the Vite
app both read it and neither needs a dependency to do so; presentation stays in
web/src/datasets.js, keyed by id, which fails loudly if the two disagree.
The dataset id is one identifier end to end:
data/2017/ → parser/configs/2017.yml → db/2017.db.gz → /thptqg/2017/
Build
(cd web && npm ci)
go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble # databases, then the site, into _site/
npx serve _site
That one command compiles the parser, builds and verifies each database against
its registry row count, compresses it, builds the web app and assembles _site —
refusing to continue if a database is short, an artifact looks truncated, or one
is missing altogether. Sub-steps when iterating:
go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble db 2017 # one database
go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble site # web build and _site only
go -C assembler run ./cmd/assemble verify A B # compare two sets of databases
(cd web && npm run dev) # the app against staged databases
The source spreadsheets are committed, so a crawl is only needed to refresh them:
go -C crawler run ./cmd/crawl 2016
go -C crawler run ./cmd/crawl 2017
Each reads the download links out of the article that published the dataset, so no link list is kept in the repository. Crawling is idempotent — files already present are skipped — and is never part of the build.
Pushing to main runs the same steps in
.github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml and publishes to GitHub Pages.
Adding a dataset
- Put the Excel files in
data/<id>/ - Add
parser/configs/<id>.yml— sheet mode, column indices, validation guards. No SQL; the schema is canonical. - Add an entry to
datasets.jsonwith its expected row count and size - Add the matching presentation to
CONTENTinweb/src/datasets.js
Everything else follows: the assembler, the router and the hub all read the registry, and the UI adapts to whichever columns the dataset fills. Steps 3 and 4 check each other, so forgetting either one fails rather than half-working.
Docs
See docs/ — overview,
architecture,
data pipeline,
deployment.