##Prison Data Visualization

This is a small frontend web app using AngularJS and D3 to visualize worldwide incarceration data from prisonstudies.org. You can see it in action here. Uses angular-seed, a bare-bones sensible starting point for Angular apps, hence all the contributors and long commit history.

###Run locally Just clone the repo, cd into it and npm install. Then you can do npm start to start the server (which is just serving static files -- there is no backend here, just a couple JSON files). Then navigate your browser to localhost:8000. Run grunt watch to compile SASS, concatenate JS, and livereload the browser on save.

###Scraper The project also includes a scraper, written in Python using Scrapy, which collects data from prisonstudies.org. To run a fresh scrape and dump it into a JSON file you can cd into scraper/scraper and run scrapy crawl prisonstudies -o data.json -t json.

###Todo

• Write more tests
• Find out from researchers and others interested in the subject what would make the tool more useful
• Clean up some general formatting issues, esp. in the formatted display of numbers
• Style for smaller screens