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

[Morgen Peers]

for those with a Canadian interest we have two new initiatives online this
week...

www.openparliament.ca (creative, innovative search and find features)

www.datadotgc.ca (instigative and inspiring by @daeaves www.eaves.ca)


Morgen



On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Yishay Mor <yishaym at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 17 April 2010 05:34, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> *Connect 2 Congress Lets You Track Your Senator, One Vote at a Time*
>> *Georgia Institute of Technology (04/12/10) Terraso, David*
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>> 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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