datamade / million-dollar-blocks

:moneybag: An interactive visualization of incarceration spending in Chicago
https://chicagosmilliondollarblocks.com
MIT License
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Chicago Million Dollar Blocks

This repo contains code for the Chicago Million Dollar Blocks website. This project relies on analysis of incarceration spending in Chicago, which you can find in the million-dollar-blocks-analysis repo.

Setup

Fork the repository, and then clone it to your local machine.

git clone git@github.com:YOURGITHUBUSERNAME/million-dollar-blocks.git
cd million-dollar-blocks

We built this site with Jekyll. Install it:

gem install jekyll bundler

Then, navigate to http://localhost:5000/.

Dependencies

We used the following open source tools:

Team

Thanks to the folks who helped review this, including: the INN Nerds, Hannah Chung, Pat Sier, Christopher Kelly, Yuanqi Wang, Brian Goggin, Sarah Bump, Joel Inwood

Credits

The original idea and concept for Million Dollar Blocks came from Laura Kurgan at the Spatial Information Design Lab in collaboration with the Justice Mapping Center in 2006. This project builds on top of their visionary work.

Patches and Pull Requests

We welcome your ideas! You can make suggestions in the form of github issues (bug reports, feature requests, general questions), or you can submit a code contribution via a pull request.

How to contribute code:

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2016 DataMade. Released under the MIT License.