Support from Transparency International and a partnership with Thomson Reuters Foundation has enabled Sunlight to make data from the two important financial regulatory agencies available for analysis.
Continue readingSunlight’s review of federal open data catalogs (Hint: It’s not so great)
We at Sunlight are conducting a broad audit of agencies' sometimes-faithful attempts to comply with President Obama's open data executive order. Our findings so far are good, bad and perplexing.
Continue readingAnonymization and microdata: Can we open up granular info without invading privacy?
We’re taking a closer look at a number of important questions associated with use of microdata — the individual-level data we understand to offer both enormous potential benefit and potential risk.
Continue readingExploring open data’s microdata frontier
What is "microdata" and why is it so powerful? We're exploring the challenges and opportunities of the current legal, technical and social landscape of 21st Century microdata.
Continue readingYour submission is accepted: FEC’s digital gatekeeper bars few
An issue with the Federal Election Commission's web forms is leading to missing campaign finance data for the public.
Continue readingRecovery.gov, now less useful!
Entity information served as the beating heart of Recovery.gov. Unfortunately, that information is no longer available thanks to the government's reliance on proprietary DUNS numbers.
Continue readingWe’ve updated Congress for iPhone with <3's for OpenCongress
We've updated Congress for iPhone! It now supports OpenCongress legislator email addresses, iOS 8 and has new features for you to check out. As always, it remains free to download on the App Store!
Continue readingWrangling messy political data into usable information
Former (and future) Sunlighter Zack Maril discusses his initial forays into advanced entity deduplication approaches.
Continue readingWomen make up more than half the U.S. population, less than one fourth of U.S. House witnesses
Fewer than one quarter of the witnesses testifying before House committees during the current session of Congress are women, a Sunlight analysis of newly available data shows.
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.
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