Cool, there are a lot of interesting this you can do at the intersection of politics and data. I know a guy who runs a little organization called PolitiHacks, I doubt he's ever used Julia before but I just sent him a heads up about this.
On Monday, July 14, 2014 10:22:44 AM UTC-7, Westley Hennigh wrote: > > Hey all! I just wanted to see if anyone else might be interested in > working with legislative data in Julia. In particular I'm interested in > trying to do some language processing on the text of bills in the House and > Senate - I figured there might be some existing projects out there?! > > I've been working a bit with MapLight <http://maplight.org/>, they have > interesting data about how much money has been spent on lobbying for or > against a particular bill. There are more details on their site, but the > thing that strikes me is that they're doing all of the research by hand > (which seems like it would be crazy laborious). I would like at least to > automate the process of identifying lobbying groups that might have taken a > position on a given bill - probably by analyzing the bill's text and trying > to pull out industries, etc. > > In the mean time I threw together MapLight.jl > <https://github.com/WestleyArgentum/MapLight.jl> to make the existing API > a little easier to use - check it out and let me know what you think! >
