visual-spending/README.md

Visual Spending

A visualization tool for family spending data using Apache ECharts.

Features

• Visualize spending per categories, subcategories, and microcategories as a sunburst graph
• Display spending data for different months
• Interactive visualization with hover details and click navigation

Usage

1. Ensure you have Node.js installed on your system
2. Place your spending data CSV files in the root directory with the naming convention altcats-YYYY-MM.csv
3. Run the server:

npm start

4. Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000

Data Format

The CSV file should have the following columns:

• transaction_date
• category
• subcategory
• microcategory
• amount_rub

Technologies Used

• Apache ECharts
• Node.js