rsmccc/awesome-public-records

awesome-public-records

If you are not sure where to begin, read [12 Resources Explaining Tim Berners-Lee's Campaign for Open Data] (http://ideas.ted.com/12-resources-explain-tim-berners-lees-campaign-for-open-data/) for an overview of open data.

Note: repo name might be changed to Government Open Data or similar

government open data

• [Project Open Data] (https://project-open-data.cio.gov/)
• [Code for America] (http://www.codeforamerica.org/)
• [United Kingdom Open Data] (http://data.gov.uk)
• [United States of America Open Data] (http://data.gov)

document repos

• [History Lab & the Declassification Engine] (http://history-lab.org/)

government APIs

• [U.S. General Services Administration Open Tech Hub] (http://open.gsa.gov/developer/)
• [Govcode: Gov't Open Source Projects] (https://www.govcode.org/)
• [Sunlight Foundation APIs] (http://sunlightfoundation.com/api/)
• [Google Civic Information API] (https://developers.google.com/civic-information/)
• [OpenFEC API] (https://api.open.fec.gov/developers)
• [18F Developers Projects] (https://18f.gsa.gov/dashboard/)

github repos

• [Sunlight Labs] (https://github.com/sunlightlabs)
  • [Capitol Words: Search Congressional Records] (https://github.com/sunlightlabs/Capitol-Words)
• [United States] (https://github.com/unitedstates)
  • [Congressional Record] (https://github.com/unitedstates/congressional-record)
• [OpenElections] (https://github.com/openelections)
  • [Documentation] (http://docs.openelections.net/)
• [GSA 18F Developers] (https://github.com/18F)
  • [OpenFEC] (https://github.com/18F/openFEC)

individual reports

• [Senate Intelligence Committee Torture Report] (https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1376762/torture-report.pdf) pdf
• [Google Reveals Jacob Applebaum's Gmail to DOJ] (https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2108000/unsealed-documents-google-appelbaum-wikileaks-case.pdf) pdf

data resources

data mining

• [NASA's Data Mining Resources for Space Science] (http://web.archive.org/web/20041119030437/http:/nvo.gsfc.nasa.gov/nvo_datamining.html)

big data processing

• [MapReduce introduction for large-scale data processing from Google] (http://research.google.com/archive/mapreduce-osdi04-slides/index.html)

data visualization in high dimensions

• [RnavGraph: an R package to visualize high dimensional data using graphs as navigational infrastructure] (http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/RnavGraph/vignettes/RnavGraph.pdf) pdf
• [On Some Mathematics for Visualizing High Dimensional Data] (http://binf.gmu.edu/jsolka/PAPERS/MathVisRevision.pdf) pdf
• [High-Dimensional Visualizations] (http://www.cs.uml.edu/~mtrutsch/research/High-Dimensional_Visualizations-KDD2001-color.pdf) pdf

text and natural language processing

• [Handling and Processing Strings in R] (http://gastonsanchez.com/Handling_and_Processing_Strings_in_R.pdf) pdf
• [CS474 Introduction to Natural Language Processing @ Cornell] (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs474/2006fa/)

articles & how-to's

OpenFEC API

• [OpenGov Voices - How the FEC is making it easier to follow the money] (https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2015/06/01/opengov-voices-how-the-fec-is-making-it-easier-to-follow-the-money/)
  • By FEC Chair Ann Ravel on Sunlight Foundation Blog
• [Introducing the FEC's first API] (https://18f.gsa.gov/2015/07/08/openfec-api/)
  • By 18F Developer Lindsay Young on the GSA Blog
• [OpenFEC makes campaign finance data more accessible with new API: Here's how to get started] (https://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2015/07/08/openfec-makes-campaign-finance-data-more-accessible-with-new-api-heres-how-to-get-started/)
  • By Bob Lannon on Sunlight Foundation Blog

Curated by Riley S. McCloskey rsmccloskey.me