https://github.com/axelson/campaign_finance_starter_package

Simple html/javascript starter package for visualizing Hawaii Campaign Finance data for Civic*Celerator http://civic.celerator.org/
https://github.com/axelson/campaign_finance_starter_package

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Simple html/javascript starter package for visualizing Hawaii Campaign Finance data for Civic*Celerator http://civic.celerator.org/

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/axelson/campaign_finance_starter_package
• Owner: axelson
• Created: 2014-01-25T20:23:39.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-01-25T22:11:12.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-16T00:47:14.386Z (about 1 month ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 227 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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# Intro

This starter package is a single page HTML file that pulls in live data from data.hawaii.gov and displays it as a barchart using D3.js. The starter package was created for [Civic*Celerator 2013](http://civic.celerator.org/) but has applicability for any data.hawaii.gov spreadsheet data.

[View Demo Online](http://axelson.github.io/campaign_finance_starter_package/)

# Overview

This starter package combines the following:

* data.hawaii.gov campaign finance data

  * Pulled in via Socrata SODA Rest API

* D3.js

  * For visualization of the data (currently with a simple bar chart)

* jquery

  * For general page manipulation

You can either view the [demo](http://axelson.github.io/campaign_finance_starter_package/) online or view it locally by saving the [index.html](index.html) locally and opening it in your browser. If you save it locally making edits is easy. Just modify the file and refresh your browser.

## Details

How to get the url for a data set from the data.hawaii.gov (Socrata) link:

Take a URL and look for the unique id at the end. In this case it is `3maa-4fgr`:

https://data.hawaii.gov/Community/Expenditures-Made-By-Hawaii-State-and-County-Candi/3maa-4fgr

Then add it to this url `https://data.hawaii.gov/resource/.json` (adding json at the end), resulting in `https://data.hawaii.gov/3maa-4fgr.json`

Add info about what you can filter on

Reference: http://dev.socrata.com/consumers/getting-started

# Development/Contributing

The [index.html](index.html) page is actually generated using [Jekyll](http://jekyllrb.com/) to make editing the separate javascript files easier.

If you'd like to contribute to the starter package, simply fork the repo, push your commits, and submit your pull request.