districtdatalabs / 02-labormatch

Private repo for team Labor Match

02-labormatch

Private repo for team Labor Match

Summary of Problem: Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, LaborMatch built an interactive site to help policy makers, investors, and the public. The team calculated job demand in ten major industries for each state. The user can choose any state and the program returns the number of jobs in ten industries for that state. LaborMatch provides a useful visualization and interface that allows users to explore their data state by state. They started by pulling the data via API. The team originally wanted to use data from Linkedin and Dice as well. However, although several scripts were written to ingest data from those sites, they decided to stick with only BLS data, After, they manipulated the data into JSON format. They built a lookup table from from a state name and an industry name. For the collection of series, the team extracted year long average values from the data for each month. This result was the input for their d3 visualization. They created an html file that incorporates this visualization. The website makes use of a linked map and bar plot.

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02-labormatch's Issues

bar chart x scale

x axis ticks need to change dynamically with the chosen data. Bars rescale properly, just not the axis ticks...

ingestion script for BSL api

We need a bare minimum script for interacting with the BSL api and pulling down some desired data.

BLS Series

We need to determine which BLS data will be most helpful to us and then it should be straightforward to pull down the required data.

map data matching

Upon click events, the state-level employment data is populating the bar charts in the wrong order, so the bar chart information is inaccurate. Need to make sure the data is matched properly.

LinkedIn api

We need a bare minimum script for interacting with the LinkedIn api and pulling down some data.

Set up project skeleton

set up basic python framework for a simple data app

Good guidelines here https://districtdatalabs.silvrback.com/how-to-develop-quality-python-code

bar chart hover

Add more interactivity to bar chart - upon hover events, have a tooltip display the data value(s).