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As part of our recent procurement initiative, I've been playing around with the data present in FedBizOpps, ( or FBO.gov) -- it’s the single point of entry for posting all government solicitations, award notices, and various other informational...
RT @MatthewWillcox: Citizen mapping/data journalism win. Melbourne's cycling black spots http://t.co/ElBRzKOQ0Z
Throughout the 2012 election cycle, Sunlight followed the unlimited money. From super PACs and corporations to unions and “dark money” we collected, in real time, the political spending reported by these outside groups.
If it makes you all feel any better, campaign finance is hard for us too.
Ahead of a hearing at the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations tomorrow at which its CEO, Tim Cook, is the star witness, computer, tablet and smartphone manufacturer Apple has preemptively released his prepared remarks defending the...
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RT @AtmosNews: Apply now: Rising Voices of Indigenous People in Weather & Climate Science Workshop http://t.co/nfSgO0u2nA @indiancountry @Native_NewsNet
At the end of 2012, comScore estimated there were 52.4 million tablet owners in the U.S.; Apple sold another 19.5 million iPads in the first three months of (Data Visualization for Tablets and Touch Screens http://t.co/s4clasysrM)...
Reporter’s movements at State were tracked and private e-mails were obtained, documents show. (RT @dangillmor: All journalists, of all political leanings, should be coming loud and hard to the defense of Fox News' Rosen.
The Data Journalism workflow was originally designed by Guardian graphic artist Mark McCormick to illustrate our work on the Datablog. It's since found its way into talks, presentations and the Dat...
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During the Iraq war, the U.S. military used open-source data, from news reports to Facebook photos, to help detect patterns in the violence. But that’s just the beginning.
A few weeks ago, we integrated the full text of federal bills and regulations into our alert system, Scout.
Public officials are elected or appointed to do the people's business, but what happens to transparency when they do that business through private channels?
This Wednesday, the House of Representatives is holding its second annual Legislative Data and Transparency Conference.
TransparencyCamp has come and gone, but the ideas that sprouted at TCamp are just beginning to come to life.
Line app contains a string of code that looks for “bad words” and connects back to a server to cross-check those terms with a list of politically sensitive words. (Oh look, more Chinese internet censorship.
When we started OpenElections, one of our goals was to make sure that we used a common set of identifiers that users could rely on in the data we produce. For political jurisdictions like states an...
RT @AtmosNews: Field campaign targets better thunderstorm prediction--NCAR, @ColoradoStateU, @ualbany, @LifeAtPurdue, @UWM, @NSSL http://t.co/7S4av01tFf
On Monday, Wikileaks “released” the “Kissinger Cables,” (also called the Public Library of US Diplomacy or PlusD) a fascinating collection of 1.7 million U.S. diplomatic correspondences from the mi...
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