A website for aggregating and graphing Washington State economic data
##Project Overview
This website is being designed for UW Economics professor Theo Eicher as a tool to be used by upper-level economics students for class assignments, projects, and individual study.
It is also being designed with a broader audience in mind. The overall goal is to produce a tool that can be used similary to the FRED Economic Data website, but with a focus on Washington state.
Main design considerations include...
- Simple and clean user experience for people from all economic backgrounds
- A robust feature set that allows the user a variety of ablities to mainpulate, compare, and export the datasets graphed
- The ability to display data from as wide a variety of online sources as possible
##Progress Updated as work continues ... Shooting for completion of all 'To Do' features by the start of summer (~ June 2016).
###Completed
- Home page
- Browse function for finding data sets
- General chart display outline finished (HighChart js plugin behaving strangely)
- Hosted on AWS Elastic Beanstalk platform
- Rough idea of site's look and feel
- Reformulating Django models to more accurately outline the data being stored by the site
- nearly finished, needs testing, will merge updates within the week)
- Front-end abstraction for adding/deleting/manipulating data series entries (Extension of Django's built-in admin feature)
- Generally implemented - need to add additional features and fine-tune structure. Shooting for this being ready to use by February
- Clean up code, add comments/additional information
- Chip away in free time, make sure new code is to standard
- Apply styles to entire site
- Add data to AWS database service (RDS)
- Fix bugs in graphing displays
- Additional features allowing for more extensive data manipulation
##Tools Used
Site is being built in Python using the Django Web framework (https://www.djangoproject.com/)
Using HighCharts JavaScript plugin (http://www.highcharts.com/) for data visualisation, and Requests Python library (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/) for HTTP requests
Making extensive use of jQuery for front-end development