A repository for our "Law, Money and Politics" hack day project. A live demo of the work-in-progress can be found at http://hackjersey.broadstreetads.com/
To run the application on localhost:8080:
- Install Python, if you haven't already
- Install the requirements:
pip install -r requirements.txt - Create a file containing your API key at
sunlight.key(or use environment variableSUNLIGHT_API_KEY) - Start the application on your local machine:
python politics.py
All of our data comes from the National Institute on Money in State Politics via the Sunlight Foundation's Influence Explorer API.
This project began during a one-day hack at NJIT as part of Hack Jersey's "Law, Money and Politics" event on Sept. 21, 2013. View our CONTRIBUTORS.md for a full list of those who have helped us get this far.
You can read all about our planning and development process on our wiki: https://github.com/HackJersey/politics/wiki
Although this project is focused on New Jersey political campaigns, we'd love to see it extended elsewhere. Please fork the repo and work on it and send us a pull request.