ghana-in-data/gh-in-data

Ghana in Data : A project to use storytelling with data to inspire action towards SDG Goals in Ghana # Ghana In Data The Ghana in Data project is an open source project to creatively present data about Ghana with a focus on Sustainable Development Goals. We are a community of data enthusiasts, developers, designers, researchers, journalists, policy makers, and citizens who are passionate about data and its potential to drive positive change in Ghana. The project is inspired by the Our World In Data open source project and the Ghana Open Data Initiative. ## Contributing The Project is currently in its early stages and we are looking for contributors to help us build the platform. If you are interested in contributing, please read our Contributing Guidelines. ## Current Repo Structure The repo we use at Ghana In Data to create and publish embeddable, interactive visualizations like this one: github.com ## ✋ Disclaimer This repo is currently is early in it's stage an it's not well-designed for reuse as a visualization library, nor for reproducing the full production environment, we are working to make as our tools less tightly coupled with our database structure. You are very welcome to make contributions to help us make this project better! ## 🏎 Getting started To quickly get a version of the site running for developing Grapher features, we recommend following the local development setup guide. Additional setup options are also available for other use cases. ## 🗂 Overview Multiple projects are maintained in this repo: ### Grapher A client-side interactive data visualization library used by almost every chart on Our World in Data. All grapher data is stored in a MySQL database that contains both JSON configuration objects for individual charts as well as the data values that they ingest. The original Grapher project is built with Lerna and tsup. ### Explorer A Grapher-based tool that creates more complex data visualization user interfaces. Each explorer can be configured via a panel in the admin client. Their config fil …