SPC member @kathyqian kicked things off with a demo of Code for Democracy (@CFDorg), her non-profit tool suite for government accountability. Kathy regularly works with journalists and watchdog groups to keep politicians and government honest.
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Really cool to see our graph-based methodologies applied to state-level campaign finance in today's piece on North Carolina with @Jeremy_Borden and @MichaelJTaffe. #campfin#ncpol
@readsludge has the full story, which breaks down financing networks in NC and looks at how Democratic and Republican strategies differed in the state readsludge.com/2021/01/15/re…
We're super grateful for @NCOpenGov for supporting this work, which is our first foray into understanding which types of data issues we might see as state-level data is pulled into our platform! elon.edu/u/news/2021/01/15/n…
Today, we’re officially launching the public alpha version of all our Code for Democracy tools. These include our core Search and API products as well as our ideation flows, which help you work with our API. Check us out at codefordemocracy.org!
If you’re a data journalist — professional or amateur — looking to investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections, we look forward to hearing your feedback!