IOTO-webapp

An overview of a project I contributed to during a work term at IOTO.

Note: code is unavailable for view due to signed NDA

What is the IOTO Webapp?

IOTO focuses on collecting publicly available North American political data to use for data vizualization/manipulation. IOTO has built an API so that customers can access this data to use themselves.

My team built a web application from scratch using our internal API to showoff what IOTO is capable of while also illustrating fun visual analytics and statistics.

As of writing this, you can:

• View legislator/legislature statistics
• View data visualizations
• Compare some statistics/information between legislators
• Search for a specific politican

Try it out live: https://goverlytics.com/

Disclaimer: The site is no longer maintained by me or my team. The web application may look or function differently than the images/videos in this readme.

How did I contribute?

Working in a small team of three students, I was responsible for a multitude of things. I worked on:

• Scraping politcal data for our database and API
• Implemented front-end legistlator/legislation pages
• Designed homepage/dashboard and legislator cards
• Created blog/news pages for team to post public articles
• Implemented geolocation feature to display closest legislators using geolocation API
• Utilized webcaching to improve user experience and decrease API requests
• Developed search feature for quick legislator filtering
• Created code pipline to streamline development pushes and deployments using AWS services

Things we didn't get to/Could've improved

• Implementing login/registration using AuthO and creating a backend database for tracking user data
• More customizable graphs for more user interaction
• Implementing provincial data (as of now the site uses federal data only)
• Implementing like/dislike/follow feature

Built with

• Javascript/Typescript
• VueJS
• TailwindCSS
• NestJS
• Python
• AWS Lambda, S3, CloudFront, Beanstalk, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy