I was trying to work with historical parliamentary data and found myself frustrated. It was scattered across various sources in a variety of formats:
I'm trying to tackle this problem by collecting these sources into a relational database. I figured while I'm at it, I might as well expose the data for others via https://api.iscanadafair.ca.
- Examples of some things you can do with the raw data
- The project's source code is hosted on GitHub and goes into the details of how I'm scraping all this data.
- Download a snapshot of this database if you're intending on making heavy use of the data.
- If there's data you'd like to see included, either create a new issue on the project's issue tracker or send me an email at bradbeattie@gmail.com.
