shinymap

Who are we?

Code for Baltimore and members of the Baltimore tech/data community

What is Sync the City?

A tool to connect organizations in Baltimore to improve impact

Why are we making it?

Organizations don't know who is working on what and with whom

Who is it meant for?

• Nonprofit leaders who need to collaborate to more effectively serve their communities
• Funding institutions who want to identify where they should invest their funds

How are we making it?

Shiny web application developed in R

What does the application consist of?

• A map with the location of all nonprofit organizations in Baltimore City
• A table that reacts to filtering and tabulates organizations on the map
• A network graph of organizations and who they work with

Where are we getting this data from?

• We are currently using publically available data published by the IRS
• Some of our data model has been appended ourselves

What are some major milestones to come?

• Deploying on a cloud service (GCP, AWS) and switching to a new domain name
• Building a database to allow for user input
• Re-assessing map design to account for where organizations work, not where they are
• Getting user feedback from using the tool as well as survey feedback

Basic instructions to run local with docker

Requires:

• docker

Steps if using prebuilt:

1. docker pull madhuravius/shinymap-baltimore
2. docker run -p 3838:3838 madhuravius/shinymap-baltimore

Warning: Build takes > 30 minutes on an i5 8-threaded machine.

Steps if building:

1. docker build -t shinymap-baltimore .
2. docker run -p 3838:3838 shinymap-baltimore

Go to browser (http://localhost:3838) to access.

Basic instructions on deploying image to heroku

1. Install heroku toolbelt
2. heroku create (store this somewhere, ex, personal one is: mysterious-earth-28048)
3. heroku container:login
4. Get the image id tag of the docker image (from pulling the docker image with docker image ls -- ex: 2890e2cb9de3)
5. Tag the docker image: example based on image and tags: docker tag 2890e2cb9de3 registry.heroku.com/mysterious-earth-28048/web
6. Push the docker image to heroku example based on image: docker push registry.heroku.com/mysterious-earth-28048/web
7. Release the image for use: heroku container:release web --app mysterious-earth-28048
8. heroku open to view it

My current docker build can be found here: https://mysterious-earth-28048.herokuapp.com

To view logs, follow it with heroku logs.