Views and Components

Views

Entrance View

• Interactive stuff front and center! * bills to funding
  • committees to funding
• Interesting Data (example queries)
• Awesome interactivity (css3 animations, d3 stuff, etc)
• Personalized
• Hashtag Input - Keep track of and alert users about new updates
• Location Based Lookup of things (reps, bills, industries)

Interesting Facts View

• Top 3 reps
• In State Funding
• Out of State Funding
• Bills Passed
• Bills Sponsored
• Attendance Present
• Attendance Absent
• Ethics Investigations Count
• Top 5
• Sectors
• Companies
• PACs
• Individuals

Location Aware View

• Fed Reps
• Legislation
• bills to funding
• committees to funding
• themes or industry
• Social
• small group vs widespread
• do they cross the aisle
• deleted tweets
• Contributions
• Number of bills
• attendance metric
• themes or industry
• bill pass metric
• State Reps

Components

Metrics

• Bi-Partisan - Do they work across the aisle?
• Activity - Do they sponsor bills and vote on others? Do they miss votes?
• Lone-Wolf - Do they sponsor and co-sponsor with the same people routinely?
• Funding-Locality - In vs Out Funding
• Funding vs Salary - Are they worth the salary we pay them?
• Number of Constituents
• Measure activity against incumbency (break down voting history based on years on the job)
• Bill pass - bills sponsored vs bills sent to congress vs bills passed vs bills vetoed
• Ethics Investigation - Count of ethics committee investigations
• previous career - is this available or accurate?

Ind Compare

• Funding
• Sectors
• Companies

Ideas for Components

• Bills related to a company / industry that funds the sponsors and co-sponsors
• Bio Information
• Committees vs Industry Funding for Rep
• Deleted Tweets API - sunlight

Data

Individual

• Bio
• Committees
• Bills
• Sponsored
• Co-Sponsored
• Funding
• Sectors
• Companies
• Locale (In vs Out State)
• Type (PAC vs Ind)
• Votes
• History
• Attendance