Accessing Indiana's legislative documents is hard to do in a consistent way. So, we created a work-around that obtains bill text and makes it available to anyone via our Open States tool.
Continue readingJoin Sunlight at PyCon 2015
Catch Sunlight at PyCon 2015 in Montreal — and help us build a new army of scrapers to collect data about political influence at all levels of government.
Continue readingMaking SublimeLinter work with rbenv and rubocop
Linting your code reveals syntactical errors and deviations from accepted stylistic conventions, and — as someone that switches between languages a lot — I heartily recommend it.
Continue readingDowngrading the district: Why we’re lowering D.C.’s legislative data score
While we commend D.C. on the fact that it's made an effort to release bulk legislative data, there are some issues that force us to downgrade the district's entry in our Open Legislative Data Report Card.
Continue readingIs that photo vintage, senator? Scattered data paint outdated picture of some in Congress
My gripes about our disjointed image repository set might seem trivial, but they point to a larger truth: If a government data source isn't updated appropriately, its value is principally historical.
Continue readingHow to quickly set up Travis CI for your Ruby application
If you want your Travis build to go faster and you use [`bundler`](http://bundler.io/) in your Ruby project, try adding this to your .travis.yml.
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