Know Your Ward

Prologue

Members of certain localities in Chennai participate in a survey.

The survey aims

• to understand awareness of citizens regarding services and infrastructure
• collect qualitative feedbacks regarding infrastructures like drainage system, road conditions, education etc.

The App

This app aggregates answers from participants(anonymised). And then curates an experience to inform users

• details on city services encompassing distinct aspects
• qualitative gradation of city services
• recognise pressing issues
• call to action to help improve infrastructures

The app development cycles are iterative.

We are beginning with

• List questions and display the distribution of answers through a bar/pie chart

• Filter questions based on participant's attributes like

  • Sex
  • Locality

• Filter questions based on different domains of city infrastructure and services like

  • education
  • food
  • drainage

Glossary

These terms are used as defined within the code for better documentation.

Survey - The collection of participant's answers to over 150 questions in this case. This app concerns only one survey conducted the city.

Question - An enquiry regarding city condition demanding a response from the participant.

Attributes of question

• Category - Describe the domain of city infrastructure like food or education that the question belongs/relates to

Response - A participant's opinion or knowledge regarding the question

Some responses are

• qualitative (Strongly Agree, Agree, Disagree, Strongly Disagree)
• ratings (1 - 5)
• awareness (Yes/No)

Participant - The person taking the survey.

Attributes of a participant

• Gender
• Age
• Locality
• Ward Number
• Occupation
• Pin Code

Filters - Help user make an informed decision to focus on particular questions grouped by scope of attributes related to question or participants

Development

• Clone the repo and cd into it
• yarn
• json-server --port=3004 ./db.json
• yarn start

This app is generated by create-react-app.