**NOTE**: I'll work at fleshing this out a bit better

**GOAL**: Retrieve, catalog and display a daily record of voter registration figures in Orange County because a spokesperson for the registrar's office said they are unable to provide the figures. 

**TO PULL THIS OFF**:

* Determine when the figures are updated each day
    * **HOW**: Phone conversation with registrar, reporter
* Navigate to the O.C. URL that contains the daily figures
    * Create a scheduler
        * **HOW**: Create an AWS Lambada function that is tied to CloudWatch scheduler
        * https://medium.com/@kagemusha_/scraping-on-a-schedule-with-aws-lambda-and-cloudwatch-caf65bc38848
    * Scrape those figures
        * **HOW**: Python, requests and BeautifulSoup
        * Save them to a .csv file stored on AWS S3
            * **HOW**: Tie my AWS Lambada function to S3
        * Send a message to a Slack channel with the figures
            * **HOW**: Use [incoming webhooks](https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/115005265063-Incoming-WebHooks-for-Slack)

            ```
            def send_slack_message(webhook_url, data):
                slack_message = 'Updated Orange County Voter Registration\nas of {0}\n'.format(datetime.datetime.now())
                for item in data:
                    slack_message += '\t{0}: {1}\n'.format(item['scope'], item['number'])
                post = {'text': '{0}'.format(slack_message)}
                json_data = json.dumps(post)
                try:
                    req = urllib.request.Request(
                        webhook_url,
                        data=json_data.encode('ascii'),
                        headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'}
                    )
                    resp = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
                    logger.info(resp)
                except Exception as em:
                    print('exception: ' + str(em))
            ```
* Visualize the figures each day in Observable notebook
    * By connecting to the S3 .csv
        * **HOW**: Create Observable notebook and use the `aws-sdk` Javascript library
    * Charting the data
        * **HOW**: Use Vega-Lite