Sara-Harvey / morty

Sinatra app lets users easily browse a 128-page PDF, the NYC 2017 Mortality Report, on death rates by neighborhood. PDF scraping achieved with the PDF::Reader::Turtletext Ruby gem.

Home Page:https://shpm.herokuapp.com/

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Morty

A Ruby/Sinatra and D3.js app that could make a good visual companion for interactive journalism

Enables users to easily browse a 128-page PDF, the 2017 Mortality Report, a Summary of Vital Statistics for the City of New York, on death rates by neighborhood. Development still in progress.

The PDF is scraped with the PDF::Reader::Turtletext Ruby gem.

Morty on Heroku

Installation
Clone this repository
Execute
bundle install
Then
rake db:migrate
Then
shotgun

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Sinatra app lets users easily browse a 128-page PDF, the NYC 2017 Mortality Report, on death rates by neighborhood. PDF scraping achieved with the PDF::Reader::Turtletext Ruby gem.

https://shpm.herokuapp.com/


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