Hey if you had databases for all the election contributions, including IEs, for every county in California going back to 2010, would that be... useful for you?
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And now @leonardr has "released the biggest update to Beautiful Soup in many years." Upgrade to 4.13.1 to enjoy better warnings, type hints, generated API docs, and more.
The Wandering ShopLeonard Richardson (@leonardr@wandering.shop)After a beta process lasting nearly a year, I've released Beautiful Soup 4.13.0. Adds type hints, generated API docs, and access to the low-level matching API.
Highlights: https://www.crummy.com/2025/02/02/0
Full changelog: https://git.launchpad.net/beautifulsoup/tree/CHANGELOG
An Idaho County Will Publish Everyone’s Ballots to Combat Mistrust (#NYTimes)
The New York Times · A County in Idaho Wants to Publish Every Ballot to Build Election Trust
Looking for ways to shape the #digital and sustainable #future? Sign up for the Weizenbaum Conference and don’t miss the #WIConf24 Poster -
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Do you know library workers interested in working with civic data? Please share news about the Civic Switchboard series of workshops designed to help build a community of practice in public and academic libraries. The application for the first workshop in Pittsburgh is now open & travel support is available! https://civic-switchboard.github.io/application/ #library #civicdata
Civic Switchboard · Applications Open for Civic Switchboard Institute in Pittsburgh!Apply now!
Who would be interested in an archive of the MTA bus GTFS-RT data? It could be used to analyze bus on time performance. #opendata #CivicData #nyc #transit
I made some major changes to the Baltimore City entity reference I shared on here a couple months back.
The Airtable base now lists "assignments" w/ names, agencies, and start/end date for leadership roles https://airtable.com/app1TxhwkepwEygN7/shrsG7ZZ947kG1eDA/tblFmL54X4YOCw1QV/viw5qmxXfPRgVR6QM?blocks=hide
It has a bunch of missing names + dates but it is a good start on a reference that should exist but doesn't. #Baltimore #bmorehistoric #CivicData #OpenBaltimore
AirtableBaltimore City Entity Reference - AirtableExplore the "Baltimore City Entity Reference" base on Airtable.
Do you know library workers interested in working with civic data? Please share news about the Civic Switchboard series of workshops designed to help build a community of practice in public and academic libraries https://civic-switchboard.github.io/institutes/ #library #civicdata
Civic Switchboard · Announcing the Civic Switchboard Institute Schedule and November 9 Community of Practice CallCivic Switchboard project team shares institute dates and details about upcoming CoP
Ariana Mendible is sharing a great talk, "Small Town Police Accountability: A Data Science Toolkit" here at #SciPy2023. Her group has created a great package to help researchers parse the output of FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) requests, using #OCR, #NLP, and #Python. The library, called SToPA, is available on GitHub: https://github.com/qsideinstitute/SToPA
More on the talk here: https://cfp.scipy.org/2023/talk/AXPZZG/
#SciPy #Policing #CivicData #DataScience #FOIA #Police
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Working on a blog series + talk proposal + demo about open data as it relates to ML.
Mastodon data folks + ML folks : what research/blogs/repos do you know?
What excites you about this overlap?
What concerns you?
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Here’s v1 of a JSON format for capturing #Boulder city council meeting minutes. Feedback welcome! #CivicData #OpenData https://github.com/BoulderPublicData/City-Council-Minutes
GitHubGitHub - BoulderPublicData/City-Council-MinutesContribute to BoulderPublicData/City-Council-Minutes development by creating an account on GitHub.
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A big thanks to the folks at OpenNorth for not only making a simple API to get the Hansard texts (House of Common debates), but offering a single database dump that lets you query the whole thing yourself.