A couple of weekends ago, I attended at Harvard. The event was put on by the , where we were proud to provide the data for the event through our It was a pleasure getting to show off and (ok, I'm biased here) .

The creative juices were really flowing throughout the 3-day hackathon, folks created some amazing projects, such as a vending machine bill acceptor that sucked 100 dollar bills at the same rate money has been spent this election cycle (it was really fast!), political speech karaoke, and a voting booth that just can't accept "no". Some other creative projects included an app that would process tweets from federal Senators and Representatives (twitter IDs found off the ), and a bulletin board was covered with flyers featuring (real!) numbers for lobbyists discovered through .

All in all, it was a great event, and really showed what can get done with so many great hackers, artists and researchers stuffed together for a weekend!