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Project Vote Smart

Providing “unbiased information on over 40,000 candidates and officials,” Project Vote Smart is an independent source tracking those “who govern or those who wish to replace those who do.”

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on December 5, 2011
Topics: Community, Education, Resources Tags: Campaign Finance, Congress, Data, Elections, Government, Policy, Public Information, Research, Tools, Transparency, Vote Easy, Voting Records

The Sunlight Foundation

“Committed to improving access to government information” the Sunlight Foundation invests in innovative apps & tools, providing new ways for media to apply deep political research.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on December 5, 2011
Topics: Experiments, Resources, Technology Tags: Data, Government, Politics, Programming, Tools, Transparency

National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership

“Democratizing information,” NNIP collaborates with the Urban Institute in service of 35 local partners across the nation delivering critical public data and visualization tools to help neighborhoods thrive.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on December 5, 2011
Topics: Distribution, Experiments, Resources, Technology Tags: Data, Data Visualization, Demographics, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, GIS, Mapping, Research, Urban

Less of the Same: The Lack of Local News on the Internet

 "The broad landscape of online local news is easy to summarize. . .Newspapers and television stations dominate what local news can be found online."

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on October 25, 2011
Topics: Distribution, Resources, Technology Tags: Data, Local News, Matthew Hindman, Metrics, Online News

OpenSecrets.org

“Counting cash to make change,” this Center for Responsive Politics site tracks money in U.S. politics, its impact on policy and people. Comprehensive, non-partisan data on election spending.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on October 17, 2011
Topics: Craft, Policy, Resources Tags: Analysis, Campaign Finance, Center for Responsive Politics, Data, Elections, Investigative News Network, Lobbying, Opensecrets.org, Politics, Watchdog Reporting

OpenMissouri.org

David Herzog's Open Missouri project delivers the state's largest independent directory of government databases, with tips to help empower citizens, journalists and communities.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on October 7, 2011
Topics: Craft, Education, Policy, Resources Tags: Access To Information, Civic Journalism, Data, David Herzog, FOIA, Investigative Reporters and Editors, IRE, Missouri Sunshine Law, Online Directory, Public Information, Reynolds Journalism Institute, RJI, Transparency

The National Institute on Money in State Politics: Follow the Money

A treasure trove of data to help you inform your communities; follow the Money is the only program in the nation that provides high-quality campaign spending data across all fifty states to further the public good.

Posted by Journalism Accelerator on October 3, 2011
Topics: Community, Policy, Resources, Revenue Tags: Accountability, Campaign Finance, Data, Finance, Free Tools, Investigative Journalism, National Institute on Money in State Politics, NIMSP, Policy, Political Spending, Transparency

Tableau Public

A free service to create and publish interactive data visualizations to the web. You don’t need to be a programmer or hire one – no language to learn, no Flash, no plug-ins and no API.

Posted by Sheetal Agarwal on April 27, 2011
Topics: Resources, Technology Tags: Analytics, Data, Tools