In the coming months, the Sunlight Foundation will consolidate our resources, making it easier for you to access and use the data we open up about government and political influence.
Continue readingHow to engage the next generation of decision-makers with opengov issues
For Computer Science Week, Sunlight has several tools that children can use to educate themselves on government.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Opening up government reports through teamwork and open data
Recently, a project started to gather the work of every inspector general (IG) in the U.S. government by using web scrapers. This effort has now hit a major milestone, gathering the reports of every U.S. federal IG that publishes them: 65 inspectors general with over 18,000 reports.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: Ebola edition
Sunlight tools allow you to track the government response to Ebola.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: Drones in domestic skies
The use of drones in America is ramping up — and the issue is getting a lot of attention in Washington.
Continue readingCongress API revamps during recess
Congress has been at recess, but here at the Sunlight Foundation we have been working hard to improve our Congress API! There two new endpoints that make congressional and accountability documents searchable, and more information about hearings and legislators.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: Climate change and narcotics occupy feds
This week in Influence Analytics: the social cost of coal, regulating narcotics and a controversial EPA proposal on greenhouse gases.
Continue readingLast chance training on Aug. 13 to help you follow the money in 2014 elections
Sunlight and the Asian American Journalists Association is offering one of the last chances to get hands-on, in-person training on a whole host of new and improved money-in-politics tracking tools before the 2014 elections.
Continue readingInfluence Analytics: AT&T meets often with FCC officials
AT&T and its intended, DirecTV, gain DC clout via their contributions, fundraising and lobbying expenditures. Another way their power is revealed is in just how much they make themselves known before the FCC. The answer: a lot.
Continue readingWhy we’ve collected a hojillion inspector general reports
While not technically a hojillion, as of now we've downloaded over 5,000 reports using reliable scrapers for 5 agencies.
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