swiss-hospital-statistics

This web-based visualization project is developed by a group of students from the IAM from the University of Berne and is managed and maintained by eonum. The sources of the visualized data can be found on the Swiss Statistics Web site maintained by the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).

The project is deployed at http://swiss-hospital-statistics.eonum.ch/

Goal

This project aims to visualize swiss hospital statistics. The statistics provided by the BFS (Bundesamt für Statistik) are extensive and only partially overseeable. Through the help of applicable visualizations this data should be made simpler and easily accessible.

Instructions for setting up the project

Set up the project

The project can be used with Ruby 2.0 or Ruby 2.1. After downloading the project, a mongoid.yml file has to be created for the project. It should look something like this, but must be adapted for the specific MongoDB installation:

development:
	sessions:
		default:
  			database: drg_scaffold
  			hosts:
   				- 127.0.0.1:27017
test:
	sessions:
		default:
  			database: drg_scaffold_test
 			hosts:
    			- 127.0.0.1:27017

production:
	sessions:
		default:
  			database: drg_scaffold
 			hosts:
    			- 127.0.0.1:27017

The mongoid.yml file must be placed in the config folder of the project.

Seed the database and parse the statistics

The ICD, CHOP and DRG catalogs have to be seeded into the database. Additionally, the statistics have to be parsed. For this, execute the rake task rake db:seed. This might take a few moments to complete.

Use the visualizations

Start the server up by running the production configuration (or alternatively the development configuration for development). Visit the URL http://localhost:3000/.

Run tests

The unit tests of this project consist of ruby tests that mainly cover the statistics parsers and of javascript tests that cover the frontend, namely the visualisations and the data converters.

• To run the ruby tests, the rake task test:units can be used. Please note that MongoDB needs to be running. The tests will run in the database specified in the mongoid.yml file.
• For the javascript unit tests the teaspoon gem is used. This gem is only available in the development environment. To run the tests, the development configuration has to be run. Once the server is started, the javascript testing is available under the URL http://localhost:3000/teaspoon/default. Note that if one or multiple tests show 'undefined' as one of the variables they're comparing, the tests haven't properly been loaded. Just run them again and you should get the correct results.

Recompile minified app for production

All Javascript resources are bundled in the file /public/javascripts/application.min.js for production. You can recompile the resources using the script "compile.sh* in the root folder. Make sure you have Node.js installed on your system.