API in a box

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An actual three‑layer "API in a box" that loads CSVs from GitHub into ElasticSearch, applies mappings and metadata, exposes a self‑descriptive REST API with collection JSON hypermedia and simple dedupe queries, and runs locally without servers using Docker and ElasticSearch containers orchestrated by docker-compose up. The claim: any developer can replicate a working API from messy civic CSVs; the demo shows it powering a food‑desert canvassing workflow and it reliably boots and serves HTTP endpoints.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:24Shelby Switzer
3. 1:02Api in a Box
4. 3:03What a Food Desert
5. 6:13Storing the Data
6. 8:59Collection Json
7. 10:00Queries
8. 11:04Docker
9. 12:03Docker Compose

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