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New years entity resolutions
Just in case you think that entity resolution problems (matching up names appearing in multiple data sources, while not falsely assuming that everyone named “John Smith” is the same person) are purely an academic concern, I recently got an email … Continue reading
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Follow-the-oilmoney lives!
Well, it has not been officially launched yet, but the oil company campaign contribution site we’ve been working on for the last six months is live. It leaked out on blogs this week, and has been getting good reviews and … Continue reading
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2004 Bush Pioneers Fundraising Browser
Recently bumped into this interactive flash app and pdf showing funding links from Bush’s fund raising network. From a washington post article in 2004. Nice work Sarah Cohen and Louis Spirito!
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MAPLight takes on congress
This month Berkley-based non-profit MAPLight.org expanded their coverage of the relationships between interest groups, legislators and votes to include data for US Congress. MAPLight.org for Congress combines all campaign contributions to U.S. legislators with legislators’ votes on every bill, using … Continue reading
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Prez Candidate PCA
I’ve been thinking for a while about using a methodology called Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to create visual comparisons between various political candidates. Finally stole a few minutes to give it a shot using industry sector contributions to the current … Continue reading
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Unfluence Project Launched!
Greg Michalec and I just launched a website that allows users to interactively explore political contribution data as a network map. We won first prize in the Sunlight Foundation Mashup competition! Try your own query at http://unfluence.net/ This was done … Continue reading
Light in the House
source: CMD PR Watch from an AP article Source: SunshineWeek.org On March 14, the U.S. House of Representatives “passed three bills to open government records to the public, brushing aside White House opposition, and in one case, a veto threat.” … Continue reading
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API access to US state political funding data
The National Institute on Money in State Politics now provides a service where users can submit queries and download data in xml format. The documentation for the service (which requires setting up an account login) is here. They also include … Continue reading
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Political Network Datamining
Its not what they say during the campaign that counts… ..its what they do in office. The nice thing about politicians is, a lot of what they do is a matter of public record, increasingly available on the internet for … Continue reading
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Extraction, Visualization & Analysis of Corporate Inter-Relationships
Interesting project EVA with goal of creating a semi-automated system for parsing and extracting corporate relationships from SEC 10-K filings, ‘tho they did use some existing ownership dbs as well. Software uses a nice technique of identifying paragraphs likely to … Continue reading
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