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What's being used on the front-end to display the tables and pages and the back-end to store all the info?

Time required to create?

Other fun details?

(I ask because I have another dataset I want to work on recreating online in a searchable manner)

Front End: twitter bootstrap. Back End: RoR+postgreSQL I roughly spent a week on it. At first I was cleaning and moving some data around with RoR but it didn't seemed right to me. Then I started poking around with postgreSQL and once you get a hold of it, it's super powerful and does most of the job. Use indexes... on fairly large datasets it really makes a difference.

Let me know if you need a helping hand. :)

Thank you for doing this! Any tips on how I can learn and better at using twitter bootstrap? So far I've only figured out how to load the basic template.

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