demoscapes.org

Jonas Schöley jschoeley.com

Demoscapes.org is a web application for visualizing demographic data as heat maps (so called "Lexis surfaces").

For an introduction to Lexis surfaces and their use in demography see Minton (2014), Schöley & Willekens (2017), Rau et al. (2018), and Pattaro et al. (2020).

Local build

To build the app locally, first copy the example environment file and set the required values:

cp .env.example .env

Then build the Docker images and run the full stack locally with

make build
make smoke-website