Node + Express + Postgresql + D3

Tasks:

Node/Express:

• Finish Node.js In Action
• Modularize the database integration and data querying.
• Modularize the chart generation, outside of the template generation.
• DB -> Data -> Chart -> Template -> UX

Postgres:

• Model Database
• Insert Data into Database.
  • Probably Ruby + Nokogiri + Ruby Postgres
  • Node-pg + Node scraping library?
• Automate Insertion of Data. Node Cron Module?
• Incorporate node-pg module into Express app.
• Build Data Queries
• Transform queried data to JSON objects

D3:

• Build reusable D3 chart functions. Pass data as an argument.
• DB -> Data -> Chart -> Template -> UX
• Recreate existing highcharts.js functionality,
• Change data sources from .csv to JSON objects

Other:

• Socket.io
• Bootstrap CSS
• Analytics
• Deployment
  • Amazon EC2. Domain redirection.