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Campaign Finance

The FEC’s Disclosure Data Catalog

October 28th, 2009  |  by Derek  |  published in Campaign Finance, Fed Data

The good folks at the Federal Election Commission launched a disclosure data catalog recently, continuing the federal government data catalog trend. And while there are few (if any) people better at explaining campaign finance data than the FEC’s Bob Biersack, the data catalog is a work in progress and has room for improvement.
It should be [...]

FEC News Script Returns from Oblivion

May 20th, 2008  |  by Derek  |  published in Campaign Finance, Python

Ages ago I released a simple Python script to generate an RSS feed from the Federal Election Commission’s press releases. Well, it’s 2008 and there’s still no official RSS feed, so I’m updating the script and using it as a launchpad for a suite of Python utilities for working with FEC data. In the future [...]

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