Congress-app

This README outlines the details of collaborating on this Ember application. A short introduction of this app could easily go here.

Prerequisites

You will need the following things properly installed on your computer.

• Git
• Node.js (with NPM)
• Bower
• Ember CLI
• PhantomJS

Installation

• git clone <repository-url> this repository
• change into the new directory
• npm install
• bower install

Running / Development

• ember server
• Visit your app at http://localhost:4200.

Code Generators

Make use of the many generators for code, try ember help generate for more details

Running Tests

• ember test
• ember test --server

Building

• ember build (development)
• ember build --environment production (production)

Deploying

Specify what it takes to deploy your app.

Further Reading / Useful Links

• ember.js
• ember-cli
• Development Browser Extensions
  • ember inspector for chrome
  • ember inspector for firefox

Ben Stoltz Congress App: Display Sunlight Congress API congressional data + map. Future plans to integrate donation information Ver: 0.0.1 Nov 10, 2014

To Do:

Mapping application: Layer selection base map layer congressional district layer Demographic layers household values diversity income ??? Behavior on click OR enter of data: zoom to state or congressional district and offer a choice of representative Place a graphics overlay over the rest of the state/country to focus on that area data about that representative becomes available

Congressional data: Sunlight foundation: Congress API Influence Explorer Real-Time Fed Campaign finance api? Other data: Approval ratings? voter turnout?

Twitter data: Query by representative display tweets by the representative display tweets about the representative? Sentiment analysis?