Need to inline Black font weight.

Hi!

I clicked "include online schools" and then hit search, and it got 0 returns, rather than however many online schools there are.

For example, this page for Harvard:
http://collegecost.ed.gov/scorecard/UniversityProfile.aspx?org=s&id=166027

should re-direct to the corresponding page in the new app for Harvard.

Include things like label caps, accepted spellings, when or when not to abbreviate

• Based on Associated Press
• Active Voice
• etc.

Just a little fraction of the "E" is cut off on the display

API Doc options

• swagger - Shawn & Sarah have experience with this but mixed feelings
• https://apiblueprint.org/
• https://github.com/danielgtaylor/aglio
• see this post for a comparison between API Blueprint, Swagger and RAML

Would be helpful to have a few options on how we might display visually the pricing data.

Meaning -- how can we show tuition and explain that it's a sticker price vs. net price average to explain that that's what people usually actually pay.

A few super sketchy directions would be really helpful!

As a Consumer, I want to go to a URL and view the details of that particular institution so that I can get a good feel for the data that matters to me.

I should see the School Name.

Developers who are part of the private beta will need to be able to access the API, but it should not be available to the public

We will use the same approach for the consumer tool to access the API before the data is public

We need to figure out final URLs

As a Consumer, I can perform a Simple Search using Name, Location (State, Region, Zip + Radius), and Size fields to view a resulting list of institutions matching my query. These results would show: 1) Name of School, 2) Location of School, 3) Type of Institution (2-year/4-year), 4) Undergraduate Population,

"From 2013derived_opeid6.csv fields:
name=INSTNM_MAIN
city=CITY_MAIN
state=STABBR_MAIN
zip=ZIP_MAIN
region=REGION_MAIN
type-of-institution=INSTCAT_MAIN
size=UGDS (undergraduate degree-seeking enrollment number).

From a user experience (story acceptance) perspective, this includes these smaller stories

• Search by Name #35
• Search by State #36
• Search by multiple states #37
• Search by distance from ZIP code #38
• Search by region #282
• search by size #279
• search by major

Alternatively, 2013derived_opeid.csv has the same variables broken down by branch (possibly use _FREQ instead of _MAIN). Data dictionary at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wIbBcnv-cMhmuF_8A1pFJ1vVi-W83PMayEz8hhBuKTY/edit#gid=802307363 (including interpretation for INSTCAT_MAIN field)"

Region is a number.. is there a mapping to words somewhere? DN: The data dictionary at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wIbBcnv-cMhmuF_8A1pFJ1vVi-W83PMayEz8hhBuKTY/edit#gid=802307363 includes an interpretation for this column.

• read csv files
• read 2012derived_opeid.csv
• create elasticsearch index
• search by attribute ( INSTNM_MAIN)
• column name mapping
• configure API endpoint
• search by Name
• search by state, zip
• search by region
• search by size
• geolocation radius search

In the search form, the "Advanced Search" link looks like this:

Some things:

• The button-add class might not be doing the right thing here
• This should be a link (<a>) with href="#advanced-search", not a <button>
• We should stub out the advanced search part of the form and make it collapsible

So! I did some digging and no one has a public, central content style guide.

But! Data.gov had one (that's built on top of GDS's one), so I did a PR on the central style guide work (which is mostly visual right now) to include a portion on content, using the basis of the data.gov style guide. I think they're into it!

We should know more tomorrow. Here is the PR, and the specific text: https://github.com/18F/govt-wide-patternlibrary/pull/66/files

• I chatted with @shawnbot about favorite carousel implementations for the homepage
• We both agreed that this design is very simple and so don't want to include a huge carousel library just for this
• We may be including jquery in this project for other reasons. If yes, then we will likely use a jquery carousel
• If we're not including jquery, then @shawnbot may code up a simple stand-alone carousel if we can't otherwise find a lightweight, stand-alone implementation

From @jjoteal #67 --
In the Degree search, we should list Bachelors, Associates, and Certificate

Can we just use the Ed seal?

We need to either get or derive the national averages in order to draw the triangles in the charts below:

Part of "e" in "add state" is cut off

One of our other 18F projects had a contributor point out that we were doing font smoothing wrong, as per http://usabilitypost.com/2012/11/05/stop-fixing-font-smoothing/

Need to look into the proper solution and make sure we're doing it right for our project.

From @jjoteal #67 --
Mile radius should be a dropdown with options. Perhaps for now we have 25, 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 500+ ? Content folks will need to make that final determination.

As a Consumer, I can perform a Simple Search using Name and see a list of search results

@jjoteal to put info here on which one we want

Green "read more" link isn't clickable

We'd like to use pa11y for accessibility continuous integration like MyUSA does.

Travis is free for open source, so we'll wait till this is open to start that

As a consumer, when I search for multiple terms, it should AND them (currently looks like it matches any term, should match all terms)

The fields are in this doc!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o2sI2psyRxkSt3griDj6BoOQ08R0bkfBRQ_fAhhaPOU/edit

Please have by EOD Monday 6/22.

@ErieMeyer

https://department-of-veterans-affairs.github.io/gi-bill-comparison-tool/

http://www.consumerfinance.gov/paying-for-college/compare-financial-aid-and-college-cost/

Would love your feedback.

History:

• CFPB made a college cost comparison tool
• VA forked it and added stuff specifically for veterans
• PIFs won a hackathon by expanding the GI comparison tool significantly
• CFPB went back and made huge updates

Marina Martin, Patrick Campbell, Rob Sosinski and Gene Koo would be the right contacts.

Currently the accordion elements as specced in #49 don't pass 508 WCAG 2.0 AA muster, primarily because they don't provide keyboard accessibility. This can be achieved by replacing the <a aria-controls="..."> elements with <button> elements, but that requires some CSS reworking as well.

We're still a little unclear on which fields to use and how to translate them into the text in @jjoteal's comps. Here are the high-priority ones:

• The "4-year institution" bits presumably come from the INSTCAT_MAIN field, but the data dictionary lists 6 possible values, and it's not clear how to translate these into more layperson-friendly text:

Institutional category
1 Degree-granting, graduate with no undergraduate degrees  
2 Degree-granting, primarily baccalaureate or above  
3 Degree-granting, not primarily baccalaureate or above  
4 Degree-granting, associate's and certificates  
5 Nondegree-granting, above the baccalaureate  
6 Nondegree-granting, sub-baccalaureate  

• The school "meters" each refer to a different field, and the comps suggest that an income selector will change those values whenever it's changed. Which fields are these meters driven by, and do we have the data for each of these fields for each income range? (Also, what are those ranges?)

What encoding is used for 2012derived_opeid.csv?

If I assume it is UTF-8, I get an invalid byte sequence in UTF-8 around row 2305.
If I open the file in Numbers line 2307 has: Globe UniversityñMadison West

• confirm files delivered post Jul 1 can be imported (UTF8 encoding) -- tested with 5 years of data (2009-2013) with same fields as consumer tool
• index all fields (even if they aren't in data.yaml)
• figure out syntax for querying nested fields

As a consumer, I should be able to page through a complete set of results (when there are more than 10)

We should see:

• City and State
• Mini-map (use Leaflet or Pinpoint)
• Type of Institution/"predominant degree" (2-year or 4-year)
• Undergraduate Population
• Special Designation
• Mission Statement (moved to #101)
• Admissions Data (moved to #102)
• Costs & Financial Aid Data (moved to #103 and #104)

This is a follow-up to #2. These are some more granular tasks to support the implementation of the design:

• @ultrasaurus to update the public API so that it surfaces all of the fields needed for the top-level school info

• @jjoteal to provide a mobile design and/or update the comp below to account for information that we're not including in this sprint

• @meiqimichelle to further flesh out the school page style guide to match comps

• @meiqimichelle to find and/or acquire, then integrate, these icons (tracked in #96):

  

https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=wreath&i=153543

Approved by project team for purchase. Currently tracking down how to actually purchase through 18F and charge to project.

As a Consumer, I can perform a Simple Search and fill in the State name and see a list of search results

As a consumer, when I search and have a lot of results, I should be able to page through them, so I can pick the one I want

For example:

1. https://pages-staging.18f.gov/college-choice/search/?name=sticky&state=&region=&zip_code=&search_radius=&major=&major_type=
2. I should be able to see all 12 results by reviewing multiple pages

• Need list of fields / mapping
• Need design

Should have the same margin as the left side.

From @jjoteal #67 :
'In the Major search, I was hoping that the user could start typing a major and then it would be a "smart search" and autodetect what the user was typing with a list of suggested options.'

@shawnbot We had talked about using Chosen for this feature. Is this still the plan? I'm not sure where this is on the priority list, either.

I believe what we have are 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile for each of the three tests (MT = math, WR = written, VR = reading comprehension?). I don't think we can just add SATMT25 + SATVR25 + SATWR25 to correctly calculate the combined 25th percentile, as shown in this image:

FYI: here's the list of column headings I've got that contain SAT:

SATVR25
SATVR75
SATMT25
SATMT75
SATWR25
SATWR75
SATVRMID
SATMTMID
SATWRMID
SAT_AVG
SAT_AVG_ALL

As a Consumer, I can perform a Simple Search and fill in a zip code and distance in miles, and then see a list of search results

• The accessible HTML outline already exists after #8
• These bones need to be styled, which is not always straightforward (silly browsers and form rendering)
• I am checking with other teams at 18F on their techniques so we're using the best ones

@jjoteal I updated the mobile homepage with many tweaks to get closer to your work. It is time for you to find everything I missed!

To kick things off, I have two obvious things to fix:

Methinks that you intended a smaller font size on mobile for the buttons. Right now we have:

Likewise, you perhaps intended smaller buttons overall. Right now the buttons are a set width, but that causes problems at smaller screen sizes:

As a Consumer, I can perform a Simple Search and fill in a state, then add more states, and then see a list of search results

As a consumer, when I see search results, I want to be able to click on the name of the school to get more info (because I expect that to be clickable)