I’m ecstatic. All right, so this all goes back to late 2006, a bunch of people sitting at their computers writing some emails about what Congress should do with data. I distinctly remember Dan Newman and I both thinking that the Library of Congress should make its raw legislative database (that powers THOMAS) available directly […]
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Legislative Databases recommendation makes it to House Leg Branch Appropriations markup
July 14th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: GPO · House of Representatives · LoC · OpenHouse · Structured Data · appropriations · cha · library of congress · ohp · openhouseproject
Data Visualizations, Propaganda, Congress
March 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
Congressional Republicans recently released a high production value video on the FISA fight, which prompted a quick response video in return. Political positions and identities are crafted in slicker and more appealing ways, witnessed also in recent discussions of presidentials’ skill at creating a coherent brand. While self-promotion is somewhat essential to […]
Tags: Congress · OpenHouse · datavisualization · govtrack · mysociety · ohp · visualization
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