Scripts to grab and parse data from Center for Investigative Reporting's Veterans Affairs backlog API into CSVs.
https://github.com/cirlabs/va-data-dashboard#data-updates
You can see the data at: http://tdbeta.digitalfirstmedia.com/cirva/
The resulting story ran here, with our interactive chart: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56473395-78/claims-veterans-lake-salt.html.csp?page=1
Data from CIR's VA backlog API. Scripts by Tom Meagher. Interactive chart built by Sarah Glen, Vaughn Hagerty, Nelson Hsu and Tom Meagher.
Requirements for these scripts are simple: You need Python 2.7 and the Requests library. To install Requests, while inside your virtualenv type pip install requests.
After you run it the first time, it's easy to get updates or even automate the process.
First, run python updates.py, which looks at the CSVs you've already grabbed and gets newer data from the API.
Then, run python makestats.py, which will create the index.html report page that offers a birds-eye view of the range of the data.
The interactive chart uses the Highcharts Javascript library.
This code is available under the MIT license. For more information, please see the LICENSE file in this repo.