(Edited to add Max Ogden’s recommendation of ScraperWiki to help deal with PDF datasets.) Courtesy of a recommendation by John Wonderlich at the Sunlight Foundation, here’s a faceted browser/catalog of state- and other-level datasets to explore: http://datos.fundacionctic.org/sandbox/catalog/faceted/ And while the tool itself is indespensible, it highlights the bane of our […]
Daily Archives: June 28, 2011
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Cross-posted with PBS IdeaLab. I attended last Thursday’s afternoon plenary “Civic Media Mobilization,” at the 2011 Knight Civic Media conference, expecting to hear discussion about specific activist technologies and techniques. I was also anticipating some juicy political friction between the Tea Party consultant and the immigrant law community organizer who […]