A project that allows people to explore polarization in Congress and its effects on legislative productivity.

• Clone the repo

• Run vagrant up to initialize the virtual-machine (will download/install dependencies)

• SSH into VM with vagrant ssh

• Add postgres user for project - some combination of the following commands usually works

  • set password for postgres: sudo passwd postgres
  • change to postgres user: su postgres
  • create user with password (remember these since this is what goes in the local_settings.py file): createuser -P -s -e <USERNAME> and enter password at prompt
  • create yeanay database: `
  • stop using postgres user exit

• Not in the VM, go to the yeanay directory to copy local settings and fill in database/secret-key settings/NYT_KEY (cp local_settings.example.py local_settings.py)

• Navigate to the shared folder inside the vm - cd /usr/local/yeanay/yeanay/

• sync the database (python manage.py syncdb)

• load member data via fixtures (python manage.py loaddata ideology)

• load ideology from CSV (python manage.py load_ideology)

• start the server python manage.py runserver [::]:8000

• navigate to polarization data from browser https://localhost:8001/polarization/