Unable to generate proper HTML file on local machine

[GoFroggyRun]

I'm working on a new plot based on an idea discussed here. And I think it would be helpful to take a look at how tax_reform_viz_1 generates the plot and HTML file.

While trying to get an HTML for tax_reform_viz_1 locally, I followed the instruction in the README file, and executed python build.py. I got two extra HTML files name index_landscape.html and index_portrait.html, with the same content as shown in the screenshot below:

I thought the final output would be a single HTML file, I'm thus not quite sure what I have missed, could anyone please advise?

cc @MattHJensen

[GoFroggyRun]

The problem might be coming from package version. Based on the conda list of the tre environment:

apipkg                    1.4                       <pip>
appnope                   0.1.0                    py35_0  
bokeh                     0.12.1                   py35_0  
decorator                 4.0.10                   py35_0  
entrypoints               0.2.2                    py35_0  
execnet                   1.4.1                     <pip>
ipykernel                 4.4.1                    py35_0  
ipython                   5.1.0                    py35_0  
ipython-notebook          4.0.4                    py35_0  
ipython_genutils          0.1.0                    py35_0  
jinja2                    2.8                      py35_1  
jsonschema                2.5.1                    py35_0  
jupyter_client            4.3.0                    py35_0  
jupyter_core              4.1.1                    py35_0  
llvmlite                  0.11.0                   py35_0  
markupsafe                0.23                     py35_2  
mistune                   0.7.2                    py35_1  
mkl                       11.3.3                        0  
nbconvert                 4.2.0                    py35_0  
nbformat                  4.1.0                    py35_0  
notebook                  4.2.2                    py35_0  
numba                     0.26.0              np110py35_0  
numpy                     1.10.4                   py35_2  
openssl                   1.0.2h                        2  
taxcalc                   0.5.9                    py35_0    ospc
pandas                    0.16.2              np110py35_0  
path.py                   8.2.1                    py35_0  
pep8                      1.7.0                     <pip>
pexpect                   4.0.1                    py35_0  
pickleshare               0.7.3                    py35_0  
pip                       8.1.2                    py35_0  
prompt_toolkit            1.0.3                    py35_0  
ptyprocess                0.5.1                    py35_0  
py                        1.4.31                   py35_0  
pygments                  2.1.3                    py35_0  
pytest                    2.9.2                    py35_0  
pytest-cache              1.0                       <pip>
pytest-pep8               1.0.6                     <pip>
python                    3.5.2                         0  
python-dateutil           2.5.3                    py35_0  
python.app                1.2                      py35_4  
pytz                      2016.6.1                 py35_0  
pyyaml                    3.11                     py35_4  
pyzmq                     15.4.0                   py35_0  
readline                  6.2                           2  
requests                  2.11.1                   py35_0  
setuptools                26.1.1                   py35_0  
simplegeneric             0.8.1                    py35_1  
six                       1.10.0                   py35_0  
sqlite                    3.13.0                        0  
terminado                 0.6                      py35_0  
tk                        8.5.18                        0  
toolz                     0.8.0                    py35_0  
tornado                   4.4.1                    py35_0  
traitlets                 4.2.2                    py35_0  
wcwidth                   0.1.7                    py35_0  
wheel                     0.29.0                   py35_0  
xz                        5.2.2                         0  
yaml                      0.1.6                         0  
zlib                      1.2.8                         3  

Note that taxcalc 0.5.9 py35_0 ospc doesn't seem to be the latest taxcalc distribution.

[MattHJensen]

@GoFroggyRun, we currently have portrait and landscape versions of the plot: http://www.ospc.org/gallery/tax_reform_viz_1/

This might be what you have stumbled across.

@brendancol, could you please advise?

[GoFroggyRun]

@MattHJensen

Based on my understanding, code lines here call some compressed, pre-calculated data, and thus building without such file would result in the error I'm experiencing as mentioned, which is similar to the link http://www.ospc.org/gallery/tax_reform_viz_1/.

Replacing the existing code with those got commented out to call function get_source_data(), which is defined in data.py will, however, result in some different error. The error message reads:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-2-9a9236e3bc4a> in <module>()
----> 1 l = get_source_data()

<ipython-input-1-6318ba7ad1e3> in get_source_data()
     58             for name1, growth in groups_grow.items():
     59                 for name2, behave in groups_beha.items():
---> 60                     data = run_reform(name, reform, growth, behave)
     61                     dataframes[name + name1 +name2 + 'diff'] = data
     62         return dataframes

<ipython-input-1-6318ba7ad1e3> in run_reform(name, reform, growth, behave)
     15         puf = pd.read_csv("./puf.csv")
     16         policy_base = Policy(start_year=2013)
---> 17         records_base = Records(puf)
     18         policy_reform = Policy()
     19         records_reform = Records(puf)

/Users/seanwang/anaconda2/envs/tre/lib/python3.5/site-packages/taxcalc/records.py in __init__(self, data, blowup_factors, weights, start_year, consider_imputations)
    243         """
    244         # pylint: disable=unused-argument,too-many-arguments
--> 245         self._read_data(data)
    246         self._read_blowup(blowup_factors)
    247         self._read_weights(weights)

/Users/seanwang/anaconda2/envs/tre/lib/python3.5/site-packages/taxcalc/records.py in _read_data(self, data)
    525             if varname not in Records.VALID_READ_VARS:
    526                 msg = 'Records data variable name {} not in VALID_READ_VARS'
--> 527                 raise ValueError(msg.format(varname))
    528             READ_VARS.add(varname)
    529             setattr(self, varname, tax_dta[varname].values)

ValueError: Records data variable name age_head not in VALID_READ_VARS

And it seems to me that such error might due to the fact that TRE environment is not using the latest taxcalc release.

[brendancol]

@GoFroggyRun Yes, you are correct about the compressed data file dependency. In terms of creating your plot from the idea above, tax_reform_viz_1 is a good template...but having multiple layouts (portrait, landscape) is optional. All you need a single build_cmd which lives in the info.yml file.