1. Fork/clone or clone down this repo
2. Create a virtual environment on command line: virtualenv venv
3. Activate in CL with source venv/bin/activate
4. Run pip3 install -r requirements.txt
5. Run export FLASK_APP=app and export FLASK_ENV=development
6. You may need to install Flask-SQLAlchemy, Marshmallow, and some other dependencies independently
7. To use the app, run python3 app.py in CL and query with curl or Postman requests. See the tests and the below docs for templates of good/bad requests.

The testing suite runs on unittest, to see them in action run python3 -m unittest test.py in the root directory. Tests cover happy/sad paths, showing what a successful request looks like and what an unsuccessful request might look like.

{
    "h_index": 101.1,
    "zip": "10003"
} 

{
    "mean": 100.85
}

See Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml for an attempt at creating containers. Run docker compose up to use. I found this would build an image/container, but had less luck on the actual functionality. As far as adding more information to the DB, a user would just need to add data to the preexisting JSON file.