Data harvesting from liturgy
summary
Built a simple API from spreadsheet by extracting three repeatable fields per verse — addressee god, poet, meter — and converting the spreadsheet to JSON and test APIs. Queries produce concrete counts: number of Rigveda books, proportion of verses by women poets, and one-third of verses to four gods who are not worshiped today. Also compares motifs across texts (weapons in Mahabharata versus spells in Harry Potter). Questions linger about storage and query choices like JSON versus SQL or GraphQL.
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