README.md

accountability_tracker

SCPR repository to house an iterative Django project that will store and provide data for a series of projects dealing with accountability in the political process.

Documentation

• Bootstrapping the project for local development

  • Clone the project repository

      git clone [email protected]:SCPR/accountability-tracker.git
    

  • Change into the directory

      cd accountability-tracker
    

  • Assuming you're running Python 2.x and have virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper installed...

    • Create a new virtualenv and activate it

        mkvirtualenv accountability-tracker
        workon accountability-tracker
      

    • Install the project requirements

        pip install -r requirements.txt
      

    • Create a copy of config.yml.template and rename it as development.yml. development.yml is ignored by default and should not be committed to the repository.

        cp config.yml.template development.yml
      

    • Open development.yml and fill out the necessary parameters

    • Create your database and sync

    • Start the project's development server

• Applications

  • ballot_initiatives

    • Application
    • Documentation

  • cali_water

    • Application
    • Documentation

  • election_profiles

    • Application
    • Documentation

  • maplight_finance

    • Application
    • Documentation

• Project Development & Scoping

  • Code: Scraping Reference
  • Design: Card Data Points
  • Editorial: Questions Data Queries
  • Scoping: Ballot Initiative Tracker
  • Usage: Embedding campaign contribution cards