Which places do MPs talk about?
This service analyzes the text of an MPs parliamentary contributions, extracting places they mention by name. It presents these on a map interface, one point per mention.
We use TheyWorkForYou to provide structured text from parliament, OpenCalais to identify placenames from that text, and Google Maps to display them.
One-day hack project from February 2012 API Hackathon (http://apihackathonlondon.eventbrite.com/). We won 2nd place!
It is currently running at http://viz.ohuiginn.net/
- Get API Keys
2 API keys are required, in a file private.py. This is not in github to prevent misuse. You will need to get keys from:
Create the file private.py containing the keys: KEY_CALAIS = 'XXX' KEY_TWFY = 'XXX'
- Install python libraries
Libraries for opencalais and theyworkforyou are included in this repo Tornado and memcached libraries are also required, and can be installed with:
$ pip install tornado python-memcached
- install memcached
We expect memcached to be running on port 11211. You can arrange this on debian/ubuntu with:
#apt-get install memcached
- Set up web server
To run the web service, you will need a webserver pointing urls in /code at the tornado process (on port 9000), and everything else at the static content in /site
An config file for nginx is included. Copy this into /etc/nginx/sites-enabled, and reload nginx ("/etc/init.d/nginx reload"). You'll probably need to modify it for your own domain etc.
- start it up
$ python site.py
#Getting the Pyramid project running
There is also a Pyramid project in the MPTrends dir that uses Google Charts API and Dan's work with the TWFY API. A very broken version of it was submitted to GDG for the IO 2012 "Hack for Good" hackathon.
It's a breeze to get running using virtualenvwrapper. On Ubuntu, from the project root:
sudo apt-get install virtualenvwrapper
mkvirtualenv mptrends --no-site-packages
workon mptrends
cd MPTrends
python setup.py develop
pserve development.ini --reload
#Credits