I spoke with the folks who wrote this application over the weekend. They indicated that they intend to open source the code behind the site sometime in October/November.
John Mark Walker wrote: > Very useful visualization. It appears that projects like this are > popping up all over the place. > > We can relate to difficulties in getting data (in a useful form). > > -JM > > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Ilan Rabinovitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I recently stumbled on to a great site "Follow the Oil Money", which >> uses AJAX and GraphViz to visually display relationships between the oil >> industry and elected officials / candidates. Turns out this is built by >> the same folks who created Unfluence (http://unfluence.primate.net) >> >> The site can be found here: >> http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/ >> >> >> The have an interested blog entry about the difficulties of getting this >> data out of the FEC database, as well how they decided upon the >> interface they eventually developed: >> >> http://skyeome.net/wordpress/?p=158 >> >> >> Ilan >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bytesfree-discuss mailing list >> Bytesfree-discuss@bytesfree.org >> http://www.bytesfree.org/mailman/listinfo/bytesfree-discuss >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ Bytesfree-discuss mailing list Bytesfree-discuss@bytesfree.org http://www.bytesfree.org/mailman/listinfo/bytesfree-discuss
