Project-pgcounty-spending

README

• Link to the Github Pages site where things are running

  • Prince George's County Finance

• Title of your project

  • Prince George County Finance

• Description of target browsers (iOS? Android? Which ones? Which versions?)

  • Our targeted browder is a computer web page. Our app should be inclusive to all browser types.

• Description of your project:

  • Data analysis web application of Prince George’s county finance management based on the county’s spending
  • Compare data year by year, find trends to see resource allocation, what the sector county focuses on the most, where and what they spend most of their money on, and potentially forecasting future budgets.

• What API did you use, link to the API

  • https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/Finance-and-Budget/Spending-Information-for-FY-2022/jh2p-ym6a
    • https://data.princegeorgescountymd.gov/resource/jh2p-ym6a.json "REST API for 2022"

• What visualisations does your project drive? What visualisation or other JS libraries does your project use?

  • Our project uses Chart.js to create visualizations of our data. It can change graph the data into a doughnut chart or bar chart depending on which the user prefer to see. The visualization can be filtered to see different variables of the data we created, such as filter for payee, agency, zip code, and amoutns specifically.

• What CSS frameworks did you use? What version of them?

  • We started out CSS framework from scratch, taking some ideas from past assignments and online searches.

• What is your actual project trying to display and solve?

  • Our project aim to visualize the Spendings of Prince Georges County throughout the years. Our request from the API pull data from various years and graph them on a chart. This allow us to see what the budget is going to throughout the years and what we are spending the most on, who we spending it on, and how much we spenidng on them. This could help direct future spendings in the county. It could provide us what needs to be improved or is lacking in development in the county.