[liberationtech] NEWS: Connect 2 Congress Lets You Track Your Senator, One Vote at a Time

[Yishay Mor]

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On 17 April 2010 05:34, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:

> *Connect 2 Congress Lets You Track Your Senator, One Vote at a Time*
> *Georgia Institute of Technology (04/12/10) Terraso, David*
>
> Georgia Institute of Technology student Peter Kinnaird has developed
> Connect 2 Congress, software that tracked how senators voted in the 110th
> U.S. Congress. Connect 2 Congress works by analyzing congressional voting
> records, obtained from GovTrack.us, with a type of mathematical analysis
> called a Poole-Rosenthal score. Connect 2 Congress assigns a value to every
> vote. Each yes vote received a one and each no vote received a zero.
> Senators who abstained from voting received a nine, which excluded them from
> the count for that issue. Once the numbers are assigned, the system creates
> a graph so that users can get a quick overview of Congress, or examine
> changes in behavior over time. Connect 2 Congress also conducted a
> leadership analysis on each member. "So, if you sponsor a bill you get a
> full point, and if you co-sponsor a bill you get anywhere from no points to
> a full point, depending on when you attached your name to it," Kinnaird
> says. He is building a new version of Connect 2 Congress that tracks the
> current 111th Congress. Kinnaird also plans to release a version for the
> House of Representatives.
> View Full Article <http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?nid=55197>
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