Dora

The Government data explorer.

This is an environment and set of tools for exploring data coming out of GDS. It is built around the fantastic IPython Notebook. Notebooks will be saved in the notebooks directory.

Installation

Requirements

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant (install with the package for your operating system)

Setup

1. Clone this repository.
2. Run vagrant up in the root directory.
3. Wait...
4. Wait a little more..
5. When it's done, navigate to http://localhost:5555

Authenticate

There are notebooks created to help you authenticate with various APIs. They all start with 'AUTH', for example 'AUTH Google Analytics'.

Useful links

• IPython Notebook
• Pandas A data analysis library providing structures similar to R.
• matplotlib A plottling library that IPython notebook integrates inline.