Open Budget Survey Explorer

• Live version: http://survey.internationalbudget.org

Developed in collaboration between the International Budget Partnership and the Open Knowledge Foundation. Written by Tom Rees, Hélène Durand and Tryggvi Björgvinsson.

Setup & Deployment

This is a web application developed using Brunch. To run locally:

• Clone this repository.
• Install Node and Brunch.
• Run brunch watch --server in the root directory of this repo.
• Point your browser at http://localhost:3333.

To deploy:

• Get the above working.
• Kill the brunch server.
• Delete the ./public folder if one has been created.
• Run brunch build --minify.
• Deploy the ./public folder to your web server.

Updating the data

All the data lives in the ./data folder, along with a Pythin tool to Extract-Transform-Load it through a complicated data-massage. Outputs are:

• ./vendor/ibp_dataset.js which is used by the javascript datatool.
• ./app/assets/downloads/ which is filled with downloadable files.

To update the data:

• Modify the Excel files in the ./data folder.

To get those changes processed by the tool:

• Get Python set up on your system.
• Install Pip, the Python package manager.
• pip install openpyxl
• pip install unicodecsv
• pip install xlrd
• You're all set up. Run python etl.py to update the tool.
• Run the tool locally to prove it works.
• Follow the above deployment instructions to get it ready for a live server.