Tutorial

You and your friends in the city are keen cyclists, and want to start collecting information on local things for cyclists.

You all want to be able to contribute.

DataTig can help!

Work through the following tutorial in order to understand more.

This tutorial assumes that you are comfortable using Git and command line tools.

This tutorial assumes you are using Linux or Mac, and you have Python 3 installed.

This tutorial assumes you want to use certain services, like GitHub. No alternatives will be given in the tutorial, to keep the tutorial simple. In reality, you can use DataTig with many different services. All services suggested in this tutorial have a free option, so you should be able to complete it with no cost.

• Setting up a site on GitHub
  • What this section covers
  • Create a repository on GitHub & clone it
  • Set up a DataTig site
  • Start with some bike shops
  • Tell DataTig about this new data
  • Install DataTig
  • Use DataTig to check your data
  • Use DataTig to build a website about your data
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• Specifying Structure
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  • Adding Fields Definitions
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• Checking data automatically
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  • Getting GitHub to check data automatically
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• Deploying the Static Site
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  • Setting up the website
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• Encouraging Contributions
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  • Tell DataTig where our data lives
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• Using data (API)
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  • Others can use your data
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