imclab/haiti-skel

Example skel project using Ushahidi Haiti earthquake data and matplotlib.

Matplotlib Haiti

Example skel data driven journalism project using Ushahidi example from Python for Data Analysis Chapter 8 by Wes McKinney.

Data

• Ushahidi Haiti earthquake dataset from: http://community.ushahidi.com/research/datasets
• Port-au-prince shapefiles from Harvard and OpenStreetMaps.

Steps

• Install VirtualBox
• Install Vagrant. See README.vagrant.md for instructions.

Then to recreate the output files in out:

$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
Welcome to your Vagrant-built virtual machine.
Last login: Sun Nov 25 17:13:15 2012 from 10.0.2.2
> cd /vagrant
> ./run.sh
> exit

The cleaned data files and output plot PDFs will have been recreated in out.