darkmoney 1.0.0

dark$ is a dynamic, sortable data visualization platform illustrating Members of Congress voting record and donor contributions rendered utilizing d3.js

Sources

Sunlight Labs API - information on members of Congress and federal legislation
OpenSecrets.org - industry contribution data
GovTrack.us - tracking legislation and votes in the United States Congress.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

Ruby Version 2.3.0
Rails Version 4.2.5

Installing

How to get development env running:

Make sure the correct versions of Ruby and Rails are installed on your system. Fire command prompt and run command:

ruby -v && rails -v

Clone darkmoney git repository

git clone git@github.com:chrisbradshaw/dark-money.git

Install all dependencies

bundle install

Create db and migrate schema

rake db:create
rake db:migrate

Don't forget to open PostgreSQL

rails s

Navigate to localhost:3000 in your browser.

Built With

d3.js - javascript library for manipulating documents based on data.
Ruby on Rails - server-side web application framework written in Ruby

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on our code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.

Versioning

We use SemVer for versioning. For the versions available, see the tags on this repository.

Authors

Chris Bradshaw - Version 1.0 - chrisbradshaw
Linda Haviv - Version 1.0 - lindahaviv
Matteo Ziff - Version 1.0 - moziff

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details

LindaHaviv/dark-money