datamade/wv-eitc

Name: wv-eitc

Owner: datamade

Description: :dollar: Invest in West Virginia Families - a statewide map showing EITC legislative impact

Created: 2015-10-12 15:08:54.0

Updated: 2018-01-29 11:20:51.0

Pushed: 2017-05-24 20:38:06.0

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Size: 14447

Language: JavaScript

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README

Invest in West Virginia Families

http://investinwvfamilies.org

Running locally

This website is built using Jekyll. You will need to install it first.

clone https://github.com/datamade/wv-eitc.git
v-eitc
ll serve -w

Then open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:5000

Web dependencies

We used the following open source tools:

• Jekyll - Static site generator built in Ruby
• Bootstrap - Responsive HTML, CSS and Javascript framework
• Leaflet - javascript library interactive maps
• jQuery Address - javascript library creating RESTful URLs
• GitHub pages - free static website hosting

Data sources

West Virginia Upper and Lower legislative districts come from the US Census: https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/cbf/cbf_sld.html

EITC impact numbers collected and provided by the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy.

See our README for more on working with this data

Team

• Derek Eder - developer, content
• Eric van Zanten - developer, GIS data merging

Errors / Bugs

If something is not behaving intuitively, it is a bug, and should be reported. Report it here: https://github.com/datamade/wv-eitc/issues

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history.
• Send a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2015 DataMade and Voices for West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy. Released under the MIT License.

This project is based on EITC Works! by DataMade and Voices for Illinois Children. See the code.