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Rootstrikers: reducing the corrosive influence of money in politics

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Hosted by James Michael DuPont (h4ck3rm1k3) on 2013-11-05 is flagged as Clean and is released under a CC-BY-SA license.
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general.

In the show I introduce rootstrikers and describe my current project to process the FEC data.

Different Rootstriker Projects that I worked on :

The Anti Corruption Pledge : https://bitbucket.org/h4ck3rm1k3/the-anti-corruption-pledge

Congress Legislators https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators

Rootstrikers Wikipedia Interface

Federal Election Commission aggregation

Fech, the ruby interface : https://github.com/NYTimes/Fech

The documentation of the fields, with a generated python class interface https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/FEC-Field-Documentation

Starting point of the data repository in yaml format (v1) https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation

The years are split into git submodules

Experimental C++ Reader(not finished)

twitter : https://twitter.com/h4ck3rm1k3

G+ : https://plus.google.com/u/0/106785192512941136314/posts


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