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A Data4Democracy community working to make elections and elections data more transparent
A place for tutorials relevant to D4D projects.
Project to understand pharmaceutical spending, currently focused on US government programs.
A dashboard of key metrics for the USA
A safe place to experiment with git & GitHub in a group setting
Building tools to connect and coordinate efforts to help those affected by immigration law changes in partnership with the NILC
Studying news events and internal displacement.
Web scraper for generating a graph of media connections via articles, twitter, reddit, and more
Analysis related to the behavior of extreme far right online communities
NOT AN ACTIVE PROJECT -- Check readme for data sources
The code that generates the zipcode to look up csv's based on government data. Dataset can be found here https://data.world/niccolley/us-zipcode-to-county-state
Simply collect social media content
Aggregating call to action sites into a single application.
A place for project ideas to live, be discussed, and be brought to life!
Twitter topic search and indexing with Elasticsearch
Our public-facing website!
Template for Docker-based projects
analyze India's National Family Health Survey r.e. women's empowerment, wealth
Highlighting code & projects from #city-denver and #city-boulder.
Identifying vulnerable house and senate seats in the 2018 midterm elections
NOT ACTIVE -- get in touch with @bstarling on slack if you have ideas
This is a place to join and analyze data related to the Women's Marches. Potentially this can lead to further joining and analysis of data on resistance to Trump and support for rights or issues that Trump opposes, as the Scientists' March on Washington (and possibly others) are discussed about and planned.
Research on disinformation operations, influence campaigns.
Analysis of incarceration data to inform bail reform legislation in Colorado. Data for Democracy x ACLU of Colorado.
The ATI Broadcast app group is building a Facebook publishing app for the group America the Indivisible. Via this app an AITD trusted partner will be able to broadcast a message to multiply Facebook groups from one interface. This will allow the local groups in a region, of which there are many, to better communicate and mobilize toward specific actions.
Data collection and analysis around the financial disclosures from the Office of Government Ethics
Tools to scrape and centralize the text of meeting agendas & minutes from local city governments. NOT ACTIVE -- looking for new lead(s)!
code to use the reddit api to get data from subreddit|(s)
This is the back-end for the Princeton Election Consortium Gerrymandering project
Organizing info on ongoing ProPublica projects and team maintenance
We are going to try to use satellite imagery and publicly available wealth data to predict poverty using deep learning.
Repo storing all of the goodies from the March 2017 Louisville Hackathon
Working on awesome projects for the City of San Diego
scripts and data for parade-db: a political issue tracker to support educated voting
Exploring German immigration data
Project dedicated to showing voters how their candidate represents them through the analysis of legislature data.
As of January, every new project at D4D goes through an ethical assessment in order to have a repo. Because the Global Data Ethics Project is a flagship partner project for D4D, we are incorporating ethical frameworks into our data work!
Repository for the Ethics Research GDEP working group
Credit monitoring but for propaganda
Get all of your reps' contact info in your phone
Exploring segregation in residential education
Resources and tools to connect educators and students interested in exploring capstone/community service projects with D4D
Build a tool that helps readers quickly see all perspectives of a story
Any announcements made in the #announcements channel in the D4D slack, for transparency.
Repository for the D4D Ambassador GDEP working group
Code that supports d4d's harvesting, munging, and analyzing data from current and past administrations’ public websites
Investigations to compile a database of Americans' IDs that were appropriated for industry-aligned comments
Exploration of Texas secession conversation on Twitter
Twitter for Python!
Identifying insights and patterns from analysis of UK election data.
A home for all things fact-checking-related in D4D.
Listing of all the public projects and other relevant information.
Building R tools for D4D projects
A slackbot built with hubot to support the D4D community
Microsite for the Ethical Imagination project
Bootstrap navbars fixed to left or right
GitHub tips tricks and 411
Repository for the Ethics Structures GDEP working group
Repo for the Ethics Marketplace GDEP working group
Repository for the Ethics Lit Review GDEP working group
Repository for the Ethics Decolonizing GDEP working group
Many people outside of academia are unfamiliar with ethnography and how to use it to understand people and cultures. The purpose of this project is to open source that process so that those without formal training can participate and we can gain deeper insight into questions that are socially relevant across a wide variety of places and cultures.
If someone asks me for something, and I can program it, this is where you can find it.
Open source on demand courses and cheat sheets for Git and GitHub
A repo containing samples tied to new functionality in each release of Google Chrome.
For aggregating CTAs
Ethics Team meeting materials
Typing social media based on conservative vs liberal moral foundations
Twitter feeds collected from each county
Educational outreach, classes, seminars
Assigning a hate score to media outlets based on their content.
Understanding what open data a city might want to publish
Prep materials for the hackathon
Web frontend for the Internal Displacement App
server side REST application for the internal displacement project
Tennessee-specific projects (statewide).
An example Slack bot written in Ruby