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.