Objectives

• Describe Locovote
• Introduce cool tools
  • Observable Framework
  • Cloudflare Pages
  • marimo
• Inspire collaboration

Locovote

• locovote.com
• Dashboard to compare cities and towns
• Which towns have the best schools? (MCAS scores)
• Which towns have the lowest property tax rates?

Features

• Compare Municipalities

• Compare School Districts

  Note: Municipalities ≠ School Districts

• Race and Test Scores

• Data Sources Documented

• Cambridge Schools Analysis

Architecture

• Source code: github.com/amarder/locovote
• Python scripts download and clean data
• Observable Framework creates dashboard
• Cloudflare Pages deploys website
  • Unlimited bandwidth
  • 25 MiB maximum file size (DuckDB-Wasm blocker)

Observable Framework

• Static site generator for data apps
• Write Markdown - literate programming
• Great D3 support: Sankey diagram
• Built on React

Bonus Tool

• marimo: Jupyter Notebooks, improved!

Thanks!