CSE557 Fall 2018: Venture Capital Financing

Links

Usage

Visit one of our live visualization instances:

Main

Backup

Note: Because our data file (data/raw_crunchbase.db) is very large and has to be pulled into the browser, loading times for these instances can be quite slow. The fastest way to get an instance up is to run it locally. Startup (until the green dots appear on the map) may take a few minutes.

Manually Running the Code

Install git-lfs

Mac:

    brew install git-lfs

Linux (386):

    mkdir git-lfs
    cd git-lfs
    wget https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/releases/download/v2.6.1/git-lfs-linux-386-v2.6.1.tar.gz
    tar -xvzf git-lfs-linux-386-v2.6.1.tar.gz
    sudo ./install.sh

clone this repo, cd to the project root, and run:
```
  git lfs install
```
When the repo is initially cloned down, the large file, data/raw_crunchbase.db may be replaced with a file pointer. To get the actual file, run:
```
  git lfs pull
```

From the project root, go to the code/ folder:

    cd code

From the code folder, run with:

    python3 -m http.server

PROFESSOR OTTLEY - IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE WITH THE INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE, YOU CAN DO THE FOLLOWING AS A LAST RESORT TO GRADE OUR WORK.

You can simply clone our repository as normal. This will download everything except for code/data/raw_crunchbase.db. Then, on github, navigate to https://github.com/washuvis/venturecapital/blob/master/code/data/raw_crunchbase.db. Click download. This takes about 10 minutes are on our computers on school Wifi. Finally, take the downloaded file and place it in code/data/ in your local clone. Then, in the root directory of your local clone, run locally on localhost:8000 with “python3 -m http.server”.

If you have any questions, we are available to answer at 502-599-4091 at our anytime during the day. Thank you!!!