Iron Bars
Ironbars.org uses data avaliable from the 2010 US Census and the National Prisoners Statistics Program to provide users their probability of being incaracated in their state based on their specific demographics (male, female, white, black, or other).
Install
Fork and enter into this repository:
git@github.com:Ariflo/iornbars.git
cd iornbars
Install all dependencies using npm
npm install && start
Client-Side Technologies
Angular front-end framework, jquery, and D3.js for the US map
Users are welcomed with the question "What are your chances?" and asked to input their demographics in natural language (ie. "I am a white person from Texas", "I am a female living in New York").
This input is run through an input-parser function using regex to pull the important data from the input, validates the user input and sends that information to the database.
Backend Server-side Technologies
PostgresSQL database, Node.js, and Express for routing.
The database was seeded with csv files with population and demographic data downloaded from 2010 US Census and the National Prisoners Statistics Program along with data scraped from prisonpolicy.org.