[OpenSpending] [open-government] [sunlightlabs] MapLight Launches New US Money and Politics Data Set

Tue Oct 2 19:04:17 UTC 2012

Tweeted about this - but don't currently have bandwidth to follow this up:

https://twitter.com/jwyg/status/253208279449231360

Does anyone know Daniel or others from the Maplight team? If so would be
good if someone could ask them about the NC restrictions...

J.

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:53 PM, James McKinney <james at opennorth.ca> wrote:

> You should write to them about the license. It's unlikely to change if no
> one sends them feedback :)
>
> On 2012-10-02, at 2:50 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>
> Might be of interest. Shame it is all under a non-commercial license!
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Daniel Newman <dan at maplight.org>
> Date: Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:23 PM
> Subject: [sunlightlabs] MapLight Launches New US Money and Politics Data
> Set
> To: sunlightlabs <sunlightlabs at googlegroups.com>
>
>
> Free, Public MapLight Money and Politics Data Set Launches Today,
> Includes All Federal Campaign Contributions
>
> Hosted on Google Fusion Tables for Easy Searching and Bulk Download
> Accessible by API
>
> Oct. 2, 2012—MapLight, a nonpartisan research organization that
> reveals money's influence on politics, announces the launch of the
> MapLight Money and Politics Data Set, an easy-to-access, downloadable
> database of MapLight-enhanced Federal Elections Commission (FEC)
> campaign finance data for free public use. The data set includes all
> federal contributions, independent expenditures (including super
> PACs), and candidate and committee totals and will update regularly
> with the most current data from the FEC.
>
> "MapLight is excited to offer this critical civic data in a way that
> is more timely and accessible than ever before, said Daniel G. Newman,
> MapLights co-founder and president. "It will be wonderful to see what
> the web community builds with this continually-updated free public
> data, using the latest tools from Google Fusion Tables."
>
> Citizens, journalists, and programmers can now view, search, sort,
> filter, and visualize (with charts, line graphs, bar graphs, scatter
> plots, and timelines) federal campaign contributions using Google
> Fusion Tables. Data can also be merged with outside databases, and
> visualizations can be easily embedded into blogs, media sites, and
> more.
>
> The MapLight Money and Politics Data Set can also be downloaded or
> accessed via API by citizens and journalists for free non-commercial
> use in websites, widgets, and apps. The data set includes continually
> updated information on all current candidates for the House, Senate,
> and U.S. Presidentincluding how much each has raised and spentmaking
> it easy for election-related websites to integrate this newsworthy
> information.
>
> Read more:
> http://maplight.org/maplight-launches-fec-money-and-politics-data-set
>
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> Daniel Newman
> President & Co-Founder
> MapLight
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