HPR1372: Rootstrikers.org and federal election commission data processing

In the show I introduce rootstrikers and describe my current project to process the FEC data.

Different Rootstriker Projects that I worked on :

The Anti Corruption Pledge : https://bitbucket.org/h4ck3rm1k3/the-anti-corruption-pledge

Congress Legislators https://github.com/unitedstates/congress-legislators

Rootstrikers Wikipedia Interface

• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/rootstrikers-wikipedia
• Example Wiki Here : https://rootstrikers.wikia.com/wiki/Rootstrikers_Wiki
• Converter to Wiki format from maplight data: https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/rootstriker-fec-maplight-wiki
• Bot to upload to example wiki: https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/rootstriker-fec-bot

Federal Election Commission aggregation

Fech, the ruby interface : https://github.com/NYTimes/Fech

The documentation of the fields, with a generated python class interface https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/FEC-Field-Documentation

Starting point of the data repository in yaml format (v1) https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation

The years are split into git submodules

• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2000
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2001
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2002
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2003
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2004
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2005
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2006
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2007
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2008
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2009
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2010
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2011
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2012
• https://github.com/h4ck3rm1k3/federal-election-commission-aggregation-2013

Experimental C++ Reader(not finished)

• https://bitbucket.org/h4ck3rm1k3/yaml-cpp

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