Women Who Code Oakland Node.js Tutorial

This is a basic tutorial on Node.js using the command line. Benefits:

• You can make a basic "networked" app
• You can avoid doing clerical gruntwork and using horrible Excel Macros

written by a javascript newbie for Women Who Code Oakland / Women Who Code East Bay http://www.meetup.com/Women-Who-Code-East-Bay/

Women dominate clerical, lower-paid clerical jobs like entry level accounting and secretarial work or lower-level marketing positions. They live their lives in Excel sheets. Enabling them to learn basic coding and taking advantage of their intelligence and potential will help make the world a better place.

Tutorial Copy

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• Talk about the node.js csv npm module - https://www.npmjs.com/package/csv

Tutorial Samples

node app.js oakland_service

Not so fun! Examining domestic violence incidents in Oakland in the past 90 days OpenData Oakland

$ node app oakland_domestic_violence
>>> results...
Oakland Crimewatch - the past 90 days
Police Precinct 26Y : 2 domestic violence incidents
Police Precinct 27Y : 11 domestic violence incidents
Police Precinct 34X : 8 domestic violence incidents

// etc

Getting a raw feed of the Oakland 2015-2016 budget from OpenData Oakland

node app.js oakland_budget

Result example: there were this many budget requests

City Council : $8366025
Mayor : $5708475
City Administrator : $43098749

Public Data for Oakland

For tutorials and students we can practice on the Oakland Open Data sets. https://data.oaklandnet.com

• Teach people how to find the sample JSON Endpoint
• Teach people how to get a secret token, etc and add it to their project
• Help people put this in a web console interview