newsdev/nyt-elections-admin

Name: nyt-elections-admin

Owner: NYT Newsroom Developers

Description: A simple Django-based administration interface for an election loader.

Created: 2015-10-29 20:05:49.0

Updated: 2017-12-15 16:36:50.0

Pushed: 2015-11-03 21:40:52.0

Homepage: null

Size: 148

Language: Python

GitHub Committers

User	Most Recent Commit	# Commits

Other Committers

User	Email	Most Recent Commit	# Commits

README

A really, really simple Django-based admin interface for our elections loader.

NOTE: This is substantially broken and will be in active development leading up to the November 3rd, 2015, general election. Use at your own risk.

Database

tedb elex
teuser elex
 elex
r user elex with superuser;

Python environment

rtualenv nyt-elections-admin
clone git@github.com:newsdev/nyt-elections-admin.git && cd nyt-elections-admin
install -r requirements.txt
virtualenv .
rt DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=config.dev.settings

Secrets / configuration

rt AP_API_KEY              # Your AP API key
rt ELEX_RECORDING=         # mongodb or flat. There are other options as well, but defaults to /tmp or local mongo.
rt ELEX_LOGGING_URL=       # Your syslog URL, e.g., 127.0.0.1 or logs.papertrail.com
rt ELEX_LOGGING_PORT=      # Your syslog port, e.g., 514 or 1111

Load data

Initial data

Initial data is only candidates, ballot positions and races. Does not run aggregates.

go-admin load_initial --date=2015-11-03

Global data

Global data loads the entire state of all races for this election. Does run aggregates. Will blow away edits to candidates and ballot positions.

go-admin load_initial --date=2015-11-03

Updates

Updates refreshes races, candidate results and reporting units. Does run aggregates. Will not blow away edits to candidates or ballot positions.

go-admin load_updates --date=2015-11-03