fb-pol-ads

Examining ProPublica's Facebook Political Adverstisment data (as part of an Innovation in Focus series).

Dependencies

Dependencies for this project are managed via pipenv.

Suggested setup for macOS:

1. Install Homebrew

Homebrew is an un-official package manager for macOS:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

2. Install pyenv

pyenv helps you manage different versions of Python running on the same machine.

brew update
brew install pyenv

Then follow the additional steps outlined here staring with step 3.

3. Install pyenv-virtualenv

https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv#installing-with-homebrew-for-os-x-users

brew install pyenv-virtualenv

You will then need to add:

eval "$(pyenv init -)"
eval "$(pyenv virtualenv-init -)"

to your shell profile. Most likely this is .bash_profile in your home directory (here for more details).

4. Install pipenv

brew install pipenv

5. Clone the repo

This will create a local copy of project directory in your present working directory.

git clone https://github.com/rji-futures-lab/fb-pol-ads.git

6. Start your shell

This should initiate the creation of your virtual environment:

pipenv shell

7. Start a local jupyter notebook server

jupyter notebook