athena-civic's Introduction

Athena - Civic Insight

Athena is a web application for better understanding the field of civic technology through an intuitive and interactive graphical network view. Nodes represent entities, which could consist of people or organizations involved in the field of civic technology. The links among the entities represent the types of relationships or connections these entities share.

Filtering options provide a unique method for visualizing certain aspects of the civic technology space.

Type of Entities	Color Representation
`For-Profit`	`Green`
`Non-Profit`	`Blue`
`Government`	`Red`
`Individuals`	`Orange`

Type of Connections	Color Representation
`Investing`	`Dark Green`
`Funding`	`Purple`
`Collaboration`	`Yellow`
`Data`	`Pink`

Cloning the Repository

	git clone https://github.com/microsoftny/athena-civic.git

Setting Up MySQL Database Locally

Install MAMP (for MACOSX), WAMP (for Windows), LAMP (Linux) or XAMPP (multi-platform) stack.
Turn on the stack's server.
Inside a browser, type into the address bar "localhost/phpmyadmin" to access the database's dashboard.
Establish local credentials via the "Users" tab and editing privileges:

Navigate to the config.inc file to retrieve your local database's credentials.

Edit the following piece of code in the app.js file based on the configurations found:

app.use(myConnection(mysql, {
  host: localhost,
  user: root,
  password: your_password,
  port: 3306,
  database: 'athena'
  }, 'request'));

Execute the mysqllocal.js script to parse the database:

  node mysqllocal

Running Application

Clone the repository to the current directory.
Change the working directory to the directoy of the repository.
Execute one of the two commands shown in the table below, depending on the machine's OS.