Single purpose site for viewing results from “Nasjonale Prøver”, the Norwegian national school benchmarks.

Deps:

• MongoDB
• Ruby 1.9.2

Repo ships with all the production data dumped to a MongoDB backup. From project root just do:

bundle && mongorestore ./data/nuskool_development && thin start

TODO

• Return 404 instad of 500 on when looking up nonexistant schools
• Show data for single schools even if we don’t have their location
• Single school views should use full screen maps, pushstate, onpopstate and onnavigate hookage
• Add school results to county and municipal views, perhaps using http://tablesorter.com/docs/#Demo. Pretty up.

ISSUES

• Search REs seem to have unicode issues for scandi characters

DONE

• setup Sinatra-app with MongoDB and Mongoid glue
• read CSV data
• Scrape school adresses from skoleporten
• Geocode schools
• Dump geocoded schools to CSV
• Show Google Maps full screen
• Sketch a GUI
• Load markers for map bounds over AJAX as Json
• extract counties and municipalities into their own models
• parse test results
• calculate normalize test results, average for school, municipality, county
• scrape student body count from skoleporten
• add hatched dark layer to background map
• render nice markers with school size and performance
• geocode counties and municipalities
• junk markers not in bounds when scrolling and zooming
• apply MIT License
• Setup production environment
• apply Google chrome frame for the IE masses
• stuff Google geocoding key in environment
• render municipalities and counties for zoomed out levels
• push project to GitHub
• nicely styled marker popup balloons with extended stats
• about page and colofon. write copy.
• http cache with rack::cache and memcached
• deploy production environment

DONE – V2:

• add new test data
• rework models
• rework statistics
• rework display code
• add high quality numbers for student count & addresses
• run geocoding
• aggregate results by test type and year for filtering
• school have links to streetviews. Nice.
• view schools for counties, municipalities and single schools
• use highcharts for graphing results
• add random stats page
• Facebook likage
• Get searchy