Statistical Districts

A program for creating an interactive map of Census data for select Congressional Districts, Texas House Districts, and Texas Senate Districts.

Required Python Libraries

• geopandas
• tornado
• census
• us
• matplotlib (Used to debug GIS operations)
• openpyxl
• tqdm

Installation

1. Install Python libraries:

pip install geopandas
pip install tornado
pip install census
pip install us
pip install matplotlib
pip install openpyxl
pip install tqdm

2. Get API keys

• US Census
• Google Maps

3. Set variables in settings files:

• Rename example.settings.ini to settings.ini; and put your Census API in this file
• Rename static/js/example.settings.js to static/js/settings.js; and put your Google Maps API key in in this file

Usage

1. Build the stats from the Census Bureau with python statbuilder.py

• Build the stats for a particular year:
  • statbuilder.py --year 2014
• Build the stats for a given Congressional District:
  • python statbuilder.py --state 48 --district 7
• Build the stats for a given Texas House District:
  • python statbuilder.py --state 48 --district 134 --leg-body "STATE-REP"
• Build the stats for a given Texas Senate District
  • python statbuilder.py --state 48 --district 17 --leg-body "STATE-SEN"

2. Run the webserver python statserver.py

3. View results in your web browser by going to localhost:8000

Open Source Licenses

• Bootstrap by Twitter
• census by DataMade
• Chart.js by Nick Downie
• code excerpts by Google
  • E.g. Combining and Visualizing Multiple Data Sources
• geopandas by GeoPandas developers
• hamburgers by Jonathan Suh
• matplotlib by Matplot Lib Development Team et al.
• slideout.js by Mango
• tornado by The Tornado Authors
• us by Sunlight Labs
• tqdm by various contributors
• openpyxl by openpyxl

Disclaimer

This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.