#POLISCI ##Description Polisci is focusing on demystifying local political candidates to the general public. There is so much information out there, but most of the time you have to go to multiple websites to get the full picture on any given candidate. With this project we are striving to provide factual and unbiased information on your local political candidates from reliable sources.
##Technologies Used
- Back End: Sinatra, ActiveRecord, PostgreSQL
- Front End: Javascript, jQuery, AJAX, HTML, CSS, Materialize, Spotfire
- APIs: Vote Smart
##Features This app allows users to browse through a politician's full history and voting stats in a dynamic manner.
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Opening page displays all candidates at Federal and City levels.
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When a candidate is selected, information about the candidate is displayed.
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Clicking on 'Voting Stats' displays voting history for the candidate. (Note: this data is currently inaccurate, the graphs were created with the purpose of learning the technology.)
##Next Steps
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Building our own API with candidate data scraped from campaign websites.
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Using OpenRefine and D3 visualizations to tailor our graphs.
##The Team
- Sneha Narasimhan
- Olya Royall