From the website:
OpenSecrets.org is your nonpartisan guide to money’s influence on U.S. elections and public policy. Whether you’re a voter, journalist, activist, student or interested citizen, use our free site to shine light on your government. Count cash and make change.
Of particular interest to topic mapppers will be their OpenSecrets Developer Tools which include:
- APIs — for live mashups
- OpenData — itemized tables for analysis and recombinations
- Widgets — with the ease of cut and paste
Offers a number of interesting possibilities.
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I wonder if contract data is available that lists who approved contracts or was part of the approval process and the winners of those contracts, both in terms of organizations and individuals?
Seems to me that would be an interesting set of dots to put together. I will ask around.
Suggestions of data sources for other governments welcome!
Questions:
- Document sources of political funding for a non-US government.
- How would you apply topic maps to the OpenSecrets.org data? (3-5 pages, no citations)
- What additional data would you include in your topic map in #2? (3-5 pages, list sources of other data)