Justifying the McCutcheon decision on the basis of healthy disclosure is reckless when it is well known that the government isn't demanding it or providing it in a useful way.
Continue readingOpening data: Have you checked your pipes?
Almost every technical project (and every idea for one) has an initial cost known as ETL. So why aren't we talking about it?
Continue readingExplore gun influence state by state
Use Sunlight's interactive table to get a state by state breakdown how much groups on either side of the gun debate gave candidates for state and federal office.
Continue readingPolitical influence by county: A new way to look at campaign finance data
Over the summer, the Sunlight Foundation partnered with Azavea, a Philadelphia-based firm that specializes in mapping and geo-spatial analysis, to create location-based analyses of the federal campaign finance data we display on InfluenceExplorer.com. The partnership produced new and more accurate ways to identify trends in political spending according to location that were previously hard to complete because of complications in the mapping process. Many of the findings were mapped.
Continue readingNational Day of Civic Hacking 2013
This past weekend, over 11,000 individuals connected under the helm of the National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) -- a series of local #HackForChange hackathons, unconferences, and meeting of the minds that engaged local communities with open data, code, and tech.
From what we can tell, the NDoCH events were magnetic, drawing together participation from local (and traveling) developers, government officials (including a few mayors!), community leaders, and even 21 federal agencies. The vibe of this national organization not only encouraged a sort of: "If you can't hack with the city you reside in, hack with the one you're physically located in," but also further encouraged cross-pollination of civic applications from community to community (For more highlights from the national scene, check out this Storify feed.) Although Sunlight wasn’t able to attend every one of the 95 events held this past weekend, the events we did attend taught us quite a bit. Below, we’ve rounded up our reflections, recaps, and geeky highlights from the festivities in Baltimore, DC, Montgomery County, North Carolina, and Western Massachusetts. Continue readingSee you at the BarCamp NewsInnovation!
On April 27, all roads will lead to Philly for the fifth annual BarCamp NewsInnovation (BCNI) and its third annual News hackathon. BCNI (which is part of Philly Tech Week) is a one-day national unconference on journalism innovation and the future of news as explored by practitioners and others in the same field. Sunlight is one of the sponsors for the event.
BCNI is organized by the good folks over at Technically Media (the company behind Technically philly) and Temple University Department of Journalism. It will bring together designers, developers like myself and an interesting mix of programmers and students.
What: BarCamp NewsInnovation
When: Saturday April 27
Where: Temple University Philadelphia, 2020 N 13th St, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Continue readingSunlight at PyCon 2013
A few Sunlighters took off for the west coast last week to attend PyCon, the largest annual gathering for the... View Article
Continue readingAd Hawk Collects 4,000+ Ads, Tracks Spending
With the end of the 2012 election season, so too comes the conclusion of a seemingly infinite number of campaign... View Article
Continue readingOpen States API at Hacks for Democracy in Philadelphia
This month, the first Hacks for Democracy event has been ongoing in Philadelphia. A new hackathon idea, #hacks4d hopes to... View Article
Continue readingCome Hack for Democracy
Hackathons are fast becoming a quick but effective way of bringing together developers, civic hackers, election officials, journalists, data analysts... View Article
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