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Source for blog post: Interactive Data Visualization with D3.js, DC.js, Python, and MongoDB

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DonorsChoose_Visualization

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Getting started

The dependencies for the project can be installed using

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

You can use Vagrant to start a machine with a MongoDB instance running

$ vagrant up

Per October 2016 the Donorchoose Opendata can be downloaded from here

Download, extract and rename the dataset (approx. 204 MB compressed and 650 MB when extracted).

$ wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/open_data/opendata_projects000.gz && zcat opendata_projects000.gz > opendata_projects000.csv

To initialize the database you need to imports the csv formatted data into MongoDB collection.

$ mongoimport --db donorschoose --collection projects --type csv --headerline --file /vagrant/opendata_projects000.csv