@nickrubin Very good idea and well needed in today's political environment. One idea you might want to follow is also matching donor patterns (where do the donors concentrate their donations by party or by committee assignments) and related legislation (timing of donations in relationship to bill votes.) But excellent idea and work.
Thanks everyone! Apologies for the delay, I'm in a break between classes. @ZackShapiro that's actually a feature I had originally implemented, but chose to remove because my site was having problems with the API calls (mod_security?). It's definitely something I'd like to work on though - thanks for the idea!
wow...I never would have thought to create this as a browser plug-in. Super interesting. I agree with @ZackShapiro - would love to see a version that allows a lot more ways to search - by state, district, by contributor category (who has taken the most from pharma industry), etc.
Awesome work here. Super interesting. I hope @lessig has seen this...
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@nickrubin Love what you are doing here on many levels and would like to help. There is a lot of power in automatically bringing the right information inline with it's natural usage. I could also see this driving a lot of traffic back to a website for a deeper experience (and socially distributed content).
Your API call issue sounds like a cross site scripting restriction either on their side or yours. They are ways around this - happy to help debug.
ryan (a) joinhoney.com - we make a @rrhoover hunted browser extension :)
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