Minnesota state legislative roundup. The goal of this project is to create a visualization that explores the bills of the MN State Legislative Session 88 (2013).

Previous version

• Previous code.
• Previous 2012 live application.

Data

• Vetoed bills are listed on the Governor's site.
• Open States API.

Install

1. bower install
2. npm install

Data Processing

• A scraper has been built to pull bills from the Governor page then get the votes from the MN Revisor site.
  • TODO, get scraper to work locally. It has been copied in data-processing/gov-bill-scraper.py.
• Get the data with: wget -O data/bills-list.json "https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=json&name=mn_governor_bills&query=select+*+from+%60swdata%60&apikey="
• Process the data with: node data-processing/build-bills-json.js

Application

Go to index-src.html in a browser.

Build and Deploy

1. Install grunt
2. To build, run: grunt
3. To deploy, run: grunt mp-deploy