datamade/where-the-work-is

Name: where-the-work-is

Owner: datamade

Description: :briefcase: visualizing middle-skilled occupations in the uk

Created: 2016-04-18 16:38:51.0

Updated: 2017-04-13 18:11:05.0

Pushed: 2017-05-11 19:13:37.0

Homepage: http://wheretheworkis.org/

Size: 28630

Language: JavaScript

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README

Where the work is

A website that visualizes entry-level job prospects for middle-skilled jobs in the UK, to help stakeholders better align labor supply & labor demand.

Partners

• Burning Glass
• the Institute for Public Policy Research
• the J.P. Morgan Chase New Skills at Work initiative

Running locally

This is a static site, using jekyll. Make sure jekyll is installed, then:

clone git@github.com:datamade/bg-ippr-jobs.git
g-ippr-jobs

 run locally
ll serve

Then navigate to http://localhost:5000/

Updating data

We use Make to prepare the data.

1. Add new data
The main excel file should be named BGT_UK_IPPR_Data.xlsx & it should go in data/

2. Prep the data
to prep the csv that the visualizations read in:

ata/
 occupation_data.csv

A note on updating geojson

if you need to update the geojson, you'll need to do some additional setup:

a. ensure that PG_USER in config.mk is your username
b. create the database (you'll only have to do this once)

tedb burning_glass

c. add postgis extension

 burning_glass
te extension postgis;

d. make sure you have the following OS dependencies (brew install these if missing): gdal, postgis
e. make sure you have the following python libraries: csvkit, psycopg2, MySQL-python

Then, instead of make occupation_data.csv, run make all

Web dependencies

We used the following open source tools:

• Bootstrap - Responsive HTML, CSS and Javascript framework
• Underscore - javascript library for working with data
• jQuery - javascript library that makes javascript less painful
• jQuery Address - javascript library creating RESTful URLs
• Leaflet - javascript library for interactive maps

Team

• Cathy Deng - data munging, charts, UI
• Derek Eder - maps
• Eric Van Zanten - data munging

Errors / Bugs

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

Bug-fix pull requests welcome!

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2016 Burning Glass Technologies and DataMade. Released under the MIT License.