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jpmckinney edited this page Apr 22, 2013 · 11 revisions

Data sources for OpenGovernment 1.0

  • Bills, committees, legislators and state metadata from OpenStates
  • News mentions (Bing, Google News Search, Google Blog Search) for people and bills
    • not in 2.0, as those searches have a low signal-to-noise ratio

Project VoteSmart

Project VoteSmart tracks Guam, American Samoa, and the US Virgin Islands in addition to the US tracked by GovTrack and the 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, DC tracked by OpenStates.

Influence Explorer

Wikipedia

  • Person biographies if Influence Explorer is unavailable
    • not in 2.0, which uses Influence Explorer only