Adding athena_example

README.md

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 This is the same example as the MySQL IL campaign contributions dataset above, but ported to run on PostgreSQL.
 
+### Athena example - IL campaign contributions
+See `athena_example/README.md` for details
+
+This is the same example as the MySQL IL campaign contributions dataset above, but ported to run on Athena.
+
+
 
 ## Training
 

athena_example/README.md

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+# Athena Example
+
+Takes a database of IL campaign contribution data, loads it in to a
+Athena database, and identifies the unique donors. 
+
+To follow this example you need to 
+
+* Update `athena_example/config.py` with your Athena credentials, database name and the path to sroe the data
+* Install dependencies, `pip install -r requirements.txt`
+
+Once that's all done you can run the example:
+
+```bash
+cd athena_example
+python athena_init.py 
+python athena_example.py
+```
+
+  (use 'y', 'n' and 'u' keys to flag duplicates for active learning, 'f' when you are finished)