Thanks! Hadn't heard of PolitiHacks - looks interesting
On Monday, July 14, 2014 12:17:52 PM UTC-7, Tony Kelman wrote: > > 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! >> >
