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This is awesome. They take opensecrets.org data and present it effectively for the average consumer.
Huge fan of opensecrets.org. I've spent countless hours in rabbit holes looking to see how Super PACs received funding and who/what their spending it on. It's a fascinating resource for monitoring political funds.
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@nickrubin As a product and politics enthusiast this is great. Anything that creates better transparency about our officials is good for the public. Move over Yo, this is something worth writing about.
@nickrubin This is cool, congrats on shipping it! One piece of feedback: I'd love to just use this in the browser rather than download it anywhere. My first inclination was to go to the site and start typing in politician names. Maybe let a user type in 1-2 names and then prompt them to download. Try before you buy.
@nickrubin Very good idea and well needed in today's political environment. One idea you might want to follow is also matching donor patterns (where do the donors concentrate their donations by party or by committee assignments) and related legislation (timing of donations in relationship to bill votes.) But excellent idea and work.
wow...I never would have thought to create this as a browser plug-in. Super interesting. I agree with @ZackShapiro - would love to see a version that allows a lot more ways to search - by state, district, by contributor category (who has taken the most from pharma industry), etc.
Awesome work here. Super interesting. I hope @lessig has seen this...
@nickrubin Love what you are doing here on many levels and would like to help. There is a lot of power in automatically bringing the right information inline with it's natural usage. I could also see this driving a lot of traffic back to a website for a deeper experience (and socially distributed content).
Your API call issue sounds like a cross site scripting restriction either on their side or yours. They are ways around this - happy to help debug.
ryan (a) joinhoney.com - we make a @rrhoover hunted browser extension :)
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i would've killed for something like this back in college. Awesome work, @nickrubin!
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