benwrk/NYCCC

What is NYCCC?

NYCCC stand for the New York City Car Collision, it's the simple web service that summarize the Contributing Factors of car collisions in the New York City into an easy to understand and intepret pie chart.

The open data

We use the data from the New York City's NYC Open Data API. Which is being fetched live every time the webpage is loaded.

Project collaborators

1. Benjapol Worakan 5710546577

How to get it up running

Live site

Just visit http://nyccc.herokuapp.com to see the site live.

Run on your local machine

Requirements

1. Python 2.7 or 3.5+, don't forget to add the Python executable to your PATH afterwards.
2. Virtualenv, can be installed after installing Python by using pip install virtualenv

Steps

Start from the command-line interface of your operating system (e.g. Terminal, bash, Command Prompt, Powershell)

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/benwrk/NYCCC.git, if you don't have Git installed, just download the project as a ZIP file right here.
2. Create a virtual environment virtualenv env.
3. Activate the virtual environment, use source env/bin/activate for UNIX-based systems (including Mac and Linux). For Windows use .\env\Scripts\activate.bat if you are using Windows Command Prompt, or use .\env\Scripts\activate if you are using Windows PowerShell.
4. Install project requirements pip install -r requirements.txt.
5. Initialize project database python manage.py makemigrations and then python manage.py migrate right after.
6. Now we're ready, run the project. On Windows: python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000. On UNIX-based systems: gunicorn NYCCC.wsgi.
7. The site is live, visit http://localhost:8000 on your browser to get started.