The Archive of Mass ENvironmental Data (AMEND) is a project to assemble and analyze data related to environmental regulation, focused on water policy in Massachusetts.
The website for the project can be viewed here.
This git repository contains code for data acquisition (see get_data subdirectory), analysis (see analysis subdirectory), and the jekyll site for this project (see docs subdirectory).
You can run the bash convenience script update_all.sh to (re)generate all content associated with the site.
The python3 (3.7) scripts in this repository automatically feed content to a static website generated with jekyll. The website is hosted via GitHub Pages or can be run locally with the proper Ruby configuration.
To install the local jekyll server, you can follow this multi-step process:
conda create --name amend_jekyll
conda activate amend_jekyll
conda install -c conda-forge c-compiler compilers cxx-compiler
conda install -c conda-forge ruby
gem install jekyll bundler
cd docs
bundle install
Alternatively, use the premade yml file to instantiate the conda environemnt like,
conda env create -f amend_jekyll_env.yml
To launch the server, run the following from the docs directory:
bundle exec jekyll serve
Several python3 packages are required to execute the python scripts needed to generate this website, specified in amend_python_env.yml. You can install this environment with,
conda env create -f amend_python_env.yml
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chart.js was used to generate interactive charts for the website.
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Leaflet for interactive map display.
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MapShaper was used to convert MA's Office of Geographic Information (MassGIS) shapefiles (Towns, Watersheds) into a simplified geo-json format for web display.
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sql.js is used to enable interactive querying of the site's integrated database.
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Tabula was used to extract tables from PDF files.
- Take average over nearby census blocks