Chicago Array of Things Build: Data Science Server

Resources

• Database Schema
• Array of Things Workshop in R
• Array of Things Jupyter Notebook Tutorial
• Official Array of Things pages
  • https://api-of-things.plenar.io/
  • https://api.arrayofthings.org/
  • https://arrayofthings.github.io/

Development Build

1. In the root of this repo, create virtual environment (guide)

   python -m venv env
   

2. Activate the environment

   Windows

   env\Scripts\activate
   

   macOS and Linux

   source env/bin/activate
   

3. Install requirements

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   pip install -r requirements_dev.txt
   

4. Create a .env in the root directory of this repo with the following info. This file is not version controlled. This is where we place secret credentials.

   FLASK_APP=app:APP
   FLASK_ENV="development"
   FLASK_DEBUG=True
   PLOTLY_USER=""
   PLOTLY_API_KEY=""
   

5. Instantiate the database

   flask shell
   DB.create_all()
   

6. Run the server in development

   flask run
   

7. Optional: Create an ipython kernel to use Jupyter Notebook with this environment. After calling jupyter notebook, you'll need to select this kernel in the interface (see documentation).

   ipython kernel install --user --name=chicago-aot-env