Sunlight surveyed Capitol Hill Web pages, finding only 15 percent of congressional websites are completely ready for HTTPS.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Challenges and solutions to collecting law enforcement data
Participants in the White House's Police Data Initiative identified challenges and solutions across law enforcement data collection, analysis and release. Here are the ideas and actions that came out of those discussions.
Continue readingExploring strategies for cleaning messy data
In the coming months, we'll be blogging about the challenges of entity resolution when dealing with messy data — because no one should have to navigate the stormy seas of government information alone.
Continue readingSystem administration for junior devs: Setting up a virtual server with Vagrant
Presenting Part II of the junior developer's guide to system administration, explaining how to set up a private server with Vagrant to muck around on.
Continue readingSystem administration for junior devs: An introduction
Presenting Part I of the junior developer's guide to system administration, demystifying what happens when a server — outfitted with a fairly standard NGINX/Unicorn/Rails stack — fields a Web request.
Continue readingGitHub may be the next step for government regulation
Last week, the Office of Management and Budget published suggested implementation guidance for the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act. Why is it a big deal? It's on GitHub.
Continue readingjifbox: A GIF photo booth for the Web
We decided to replace our regular, old photo booth with something far better: jifbox, a browser-based GIF photo booth!
Continue readingSunlight Labs’ highlights from PyCon 2015
This month, a few members of Sunlight Labs continued our tradition of attending the always-exciting annual conference of North American Python developers: PyCon 2015. Here are the biggest highlights and takeaways from our trip.
Continue readingOpenGov Voices: Moving the food system forward with open data
Opening up usable data in the agriculture and nutrition sectors is critical to moving forward. Advocating to make this change happen is at the heart of the Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition initiative.
Continue readingOpening up Indiana’s hard to reach legislative data
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.
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