We launched Capitol Words just a couple weeks ago and got a really great reception from the blogs. I’m two weeks in to my new duties as Director of Sunlight Labs and while I didn’t have much (really, anything) to do with the project's success, I am really excited about it. With the CapitolWords API we can start doing some interesting analysis of overall word-usage in Congress.
Continue readingOpen Government Site Govtrack Goes Open Source
Diagram of Financial Support for Public Government Sites
Open Source Semantics Picking Up Speed
Google’s Social Graph API
Stay-at-home Servers
Microsoft propoganda targets our most vulnerable citizens - our children!
Continue readingpolipoly – A tool for dealing with district boundary polygons
Finding out what congressional district an address falls within can be a difficult problem. One solution is to use the polipoly library that we have open sourced to check if a point falls within a polygon boundary of a congressional district.
Continue readingCrossposted from my personal blog
If you like APIs and mashups, you should check out ProgrammableWeb - it’s a directory/advice/analysis site for all things API-ish.
Continue readingNew Address to Congressional District API Method
Sunlight API Development Kit
When working on a prototype, it is often necessary to get a REST web service up and running quickly. It's easy enough to do, but the amount of code that is duplicated for each service can really increase the time to completion. To make the development of REST web services quicker and easier, we have developed the Sunlight API Development Kit or, as we affectionately call it, the Sunlight ADK. The ADK is a PHP framework that assists in the rapid development of REST web services. We've released the code under the LGPL license.
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