VLAIO NETWORK

The backend for the VLAIO visualisation project. The project uses Django and PostgreSQL.

Starting the project

Before starting the project, make sure Docker and docker-compose are installed.

docker-compose up -d --build

The startup script will:

• Make and run all Django migrations
• Insert mock data

To stop:

docker-compose down

API endpoints

The API for this project was build using Django Rest Framework.

The following endpoints have been created:

• api/companies
  • Print all companies
• api/partners
  • Print all partners
• api/interactions
  • Print all interactions between companies and partners
• api/interactions?name=example
  • Print all interactions between a company and a certain partner (by partner name)
• api/interactions/types
  • Print all interaction types (i.e. subsidie,begeleiding,financiering,..)
• api/overlap
  • Print the interaction overlap between partners (endpoint for upset plot)
  • param: limit (limits the overlaps for beter performance)
• api/overlap/filter
  • Endpoint for filtering the interaction overlaps (endpoint for upset plot)
  • params: timeframe (between interactions in weeks), type (interaction type), limit
• api/upload
  • endpoint for uploading excel files (in progress)
• api/view
  • endpoint for sunburst chart